What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Source: Journals, 1906, Oct/Nov. 1850 entry
-- Henry David Thoreau, (Jul 12 1817-1862), US essayist, poet, naturalist; He is best known for his description of life at Walden Pond, Walden, 1854 and his essay Civil Disobedience, 1849.