School

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.  ~Author Unknown


I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.  ~Mark Twain


A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.  ~George Santayana


If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.  ~Edgar W. Howe


The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.  ~Maria Montessori


The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.  ~Lewis Carroll


This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that went on.  It looked like a cross between a prison and a church and it was.  ~Quentin Crisp


It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it.  ~Finley Peter Dunne


It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.  ~Mark Twain


Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.  ~P.J. O'Rourke


All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.  ~George Eliot


You can get all A's and still flunk life.  ~Walker Percy

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