Quote about schooling interfering with education (Grant Allen 1894) (attrib Mark Twain 1907)

[George Thompson]

A version from a parallel universe -- I recall reading that Count Basie once asked a musician he was thinking of hiring whether he could read music.  Fellow answered, "Yeah, man, but I don't let it interfere with my blowing."

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 1:11 pm
Subject: Re: Quote about schooling interfering with education (Grant Allen 1894) (attrib Mark Twain 1907)
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> Add Disraeli to your list.
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> Herb
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Victor Steinbok
> <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Subject:      Re: Quote about schooling interfering with education
> (Grant Allen
> >              1894) (attrib Mark Twain 1907)
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> >
> > It seems one may never grow idle having chosen to debunk the witticisms
> > attributed to Mark Twain.
> >
> > One contemporary citation attributes the line not merely to Mark Twain,
> > but to Huckleberry Finn.
> >
> > George Bernard Shaw and Churchill are two other frequent targets of
> > spurious attribution--I know of at least three lines attributed to them
> > both, by different source, and two of those I know to have come from
> > someone else.
> >
> >     VS-)
> >
> > On 2/16/2010 7:58 AM, Garson O'Toole wrote:
> >> I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
> >>
> >> This well-known quote is often attributed to Mark Twain. I hypothesize
> >> that the saying was originally crafted and popularized by the science
> >> writer and novelist Grant Allen starting in 1894.
> >>
> >> ...
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