School Quote by C.S. Lewis

“If a boy can't have a good teacher, give him a psychological cripple or an exotic failure to deal with; don't just give him…

— Robertson Davies

“Rebellious schoolboys are unwelcome in a technologically advanced, moralistic, exam-oriented society. We prefer a polished Bill Gates to an eccentric Einstein. Eccentrics do unpredictable…

— Ruskin Bond

“I liked the company of most of my colleagues, who were about equally divided among good men who were good teachers, awful men who…

— Robertson Davies

“[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise…

— Walter Karp

“Boys must find ways to compete and see themselves as performing well. If they do not, if society does not provide them with these…

— Michael Gurian

“This is a recurring theme in schools: if you are quiet, well-behaved and fairly bright you will be ignored, whereas if you are a…

— Frank Chalk

“For what can give a finer example of that frankness and manly self- confidence which our great public schools, and none of them so…

— Matthew Arnold

Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but…

— Jack Whitehall

“But I guess that's just a reflection of how the educational system today, being so overcrowded and impersonal, makes it so hard for adolescents…

— Meg Cabot

“The little respect paid to chastity in the male world is, I am persuaded, the grand source of many of the physical and moral…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant…

— Anonymous

“I think the difficulty lies in the immeasurable vanity of the human adult, particularly the pedagogical adult,… which does not permit him to recognize…

— Voltairine de Cleyre