Douglas WilsonEducation is the process of selling someone on books.
About This Quote
Education is a process of selling someone a book by making them interested in it. This quote implies that all education is salesmanship. It claims that the only way to sell a book is to make the buyer interested in it enough to want to read it. In other words, education is a sales process.
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