3 Gore Vidal Quotes on Education

Gore Vidal quotes on education

20. The average 'educated' American has been made to believe that, somehow, the United States must lead the world even though hardly anyone has any information at all about those countries we are meant to lead. Worse, we have very little information about our own country and its past. That is why it is not really possible to compare a writer like Howells with any living American writer because Howells thought that it was a good thing to know as much as possible about his own country as well as other countries while our writers today, in common with the presidents and paint manufacturers, live in a present without past among signs whose meanings are uninterpretable.

61. My general response to boarding school was: anything to get away from that fucking mother of mine. She was a monster.

63. Every fool I knew had gone to university. I didn't think it necessary. I'd seen some of the results, you know?