Carolina QuotesAnd I says back to him, “Calvin, sounding like an educated man don’t make you educated,” and he says back to me, “I'd rather be ignorant and sound educated than be educated and sound ignorant,” and I said, “Why?” and he says to me, “Because if you sound educated then nobody ever tests you to find out, but if you sound ignorant they never stop.”
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Chapter 1.
- work
- Alvin Journeyman (1995)
- year
- 1995
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