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School Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.
- The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
- It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of…
- Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children…
- My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School…
- From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.
- Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young
- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
- There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But…
- What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they…
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