Boston Quote by James Russell Lowell

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

— Ivan Illich

“W.W. Hale the Forth bought the car for Headmaster Franklin, or didn’t they mention that? Granted it was to make up for the fire…

— Ally Carter

Advertisers with their bag of goodies and promotions have entered classrooms and begun to put up billboards and posters inside schools. They persuade cash-starved…

— Sucheta Dalal

God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.

— Walter Scott

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

— David Brinkley

It's always nice to get out there and kind of put Boston College on the map, because we're not one of those schools that…

— Rich Gunnell

The time has come to end social promotion in our schools.

— Roy Barnes

Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to big companies.

— Srikumar Rao

I'm a proud product of the Massachusetts public schools.

— Charlie Baker

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

— Petronius

“If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that.…

— Jonathan Kozol