A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation. Wine can be a wiser teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books. That was my theory at least, and I was living by it.

Stephen Fry (b. 1957) British actor, writer, comedian

The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography, Part 1 “College to Colleague” (2010)
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