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Mark Twain1835–1910

I had been to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don’t reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don’t take no stock in mathematics, anyway.

Mark Twain on education

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter IV

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