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The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine.

My mind is just a product of 50 years of being taught. I'm no smarter than anyone else, but I've been taught by some wonderful people.

There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?

At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, an argument and so on - and I can't do that, and I'm not in that bracket at all.