Why do we even bother saying things when Twain said them all better?

[conuly]

(And what he failed to say better, Pratchett surely did.)

“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It’s like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won’t fatten the dog.”

Comments

[monanotlisa]

Indeed.

[affreca]

Reminds me a my state closing a small college and turning it into a prison when I was a kid.

[conuly]

Rarely is "school to prison" made so explicit.

[dewline]

And it actually happened in 1984, to boot.

[greghousesgf]

School already felt like jail to me.

[wpadmirer]

Too damn true.

[stormkeeper_lovesall]

Excellent quote!

[grammarwoman]

There were many grim chuckles when the blueprints for our boarding school dormitories were found to originally be low-security prison plans.

[conuly]

Only low security?

[silveradept]

Pretty much. And if we didn't have quite so many people interested in mahjong sure all the jails were filled with people they think are inferior, we might get schools.

[conuly]

Great autocorrect.

[silveradept]

Yes, it is. And I'm so thrilled when it shows me the right goddamn word and then decided to swap it out for the wrong word in the milliseconds between assuring me it's going to do the right thing and actually doing something completely different.

Also, it's been doing that a lot for me lately and that's why I'm hoping that perhaps seething at it a little well make it stop committing deliberate typographical errors for a bit.

[dhampyresa]

Excellent quote.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Clemens! thou should'st be living at this hour....