Flowers For Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears

intelligence has driven a wedge between me and all the people I knew and loved, driven me out of the bakery. Now, I'm more alone than ever before. I wonder what would happen if they put Algernon back in the big cage with some of the other mice. Would they turn

impossible. I am just as far away from Alice with an I.Q. of 185 as I was when I had an I.Q. of 70.

Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That

intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn."

mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and

get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons