"The best school is a log with student on one end and a teacher on the other."?

Question

This is a mis-quote and I would like to find the source. Who said this and what is the correct language?

Answer 1

"The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other,

if you had used the 'search for questions' line at the top of the page, you could have had this in about two seconds by typing in "one end of a log"...

Answer 2

The ideal education, it's been said, is a good teacher sitting at one end of a log and a student at the other.