“the importance attached to prestigious universities, and even university teaching itself, may be overstated. What you learn at 20 years of age is not as important as lifelong education – preferably when it is self-taught. Three or four years of being put on the right path by good professors may be useful, but the key thing is to have a spark of interest awoken in us at a particular point in time, which opens up an appealing and limitless path.”