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School Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
- Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
- The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any…
- It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.
- I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to…
- There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where…
- The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries,…
- The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can…
- As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.
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