Children Quote by George Bernard Shaw

My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the…

— Ronnie James Dio

For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was…

— Michael Leunig

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

I'd been a terrific student. I hadn't wasted a moment of my time in school, and I knew plenty about healing the troubled mind.…

— Diane Chamberlain

I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.

— Edvard Grieg

Going to school at home saved my life as far as education went. My parents were able to give me the attention I needed.

— Kristy Swanson

My school was made for the sole purpose of making me miserable.

— Ramandeep Singh

I was getting in trouble at school. I wasn't happy. The school was very much a school that created people for commerce and it…

— Ewan McGregor

My parents were educated in the Turkish system and went straight from high school to medical school; my mom, who had skipped a grade,…

— Elif Batuman

I was never told that the purpose of school was to get a job at the end of it. What was pushed on me…

— Nicola Walker

Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their…

— Simon van der Meer

I was a pretty delicate kid. Anything that was going around I'd get it and I'd generally get it much worse than other people,…

— Geraldine Brooks