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He who laughs most, learns best.

— John Cleese Creating Emotionally Safe Schools: A Guide for Educators and Parents‎ (2001)

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All humans are stupid, but the smarter ones at least have a handle on their own ignorance.

Because these people are operating at a very very low level of mental health, they are incapable of understanding the teaching.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

Best New Games (2002)

Four hundred years ago, we would have been burnt for this film. Now, I'm suggesting that we've made an advance.

Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.

On Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1997)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

G. K. Chesterton

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

Confucius

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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