Schools Quotes

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colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of… — Jack Kerouac
Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their… — Rabindranath Tagore
The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of… — W. E. B. Du Bois
This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow… — John Steinbeck
The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead,… — Joseph Campbell
I'm no military expert, and these figures might not be exactly right,' I said. 'But as best I can tell, we've launched 114 Tomahawk cruise… — Greg Mortenson
A wise man from my home once told me that these mountains have seen far too much suffering and killing, and that each rock and… — Greg Mortenson
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Hindus are not looking for us to send them men who will build schools and hospitals, although those things are good and useful in… — Thomas Merton
Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to… — Walter de La Mare
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind… — Thomas A. Edison
Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured… — Evelyn Underhill
He was the only boy I'd found worth dating in God knows how many schools. I mean, ever since he'd been bitten by a werwulf… — Lilith Saintcrow
The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser… — Marguerite Yourcenar
For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim to being the… — Sam Harris
Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. . . . Competition for the best… — Aaron Sorkin
When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal. — Garrison Keillor
Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of human… — Graham Hancock
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection,… — Frederic Bastiat
Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery… — Mary Griffith
The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow… — Anthony Burgess
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall again, Cortés'll lay… — David Mitchell

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