Boys Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Unspoiled by education, frank and unsuspecting as young an8imals, they came up to school from their meadows, their games, and their dreams. The simple…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Because, sir, teaching young gentlemen has a dismal effect upon the soul.It exemplifies the badness of established, artificial authority. The pedagogue has almost absolute…

— Patrick O'Brian

“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

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that…

— Gilbert Highet

The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“It is wrong to say that schoolmasters lack heart and are dried-up, soulless pedants! No, by no means. When a child's talent which he…

— Hermann Hesse

I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak…

— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

School is supposed to civilise us, to tame our wilder instincts and teach us how to be more sensible, more knowledgeable, and cleverer.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“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 school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and…

— Catharine Beecher

In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could…

— Myriam Miedzian