It’s always the children who say ‘Sir, sir, what’s the point of geometry’, or ‘what’s the point of Latin’, that end up having no job, being alcoholic, and they don’t notice that the ones who actually find knowledge for its own sake, and pleasure in information, in history, in the world and nature around us, actually getting on and DOING things with their fucking lives…it’s an odd thing.
Stephen Fry in QI.
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