Abolition Quote by Peter Medawar

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.

— Christopher Lee

Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide...

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead…

— George Bernard Shaw

I was raised in public schools, but from the word go, I never believed what the public schools were teaching me. Nor did I…

— Peter Brook

“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How…

— G.K. Chesterton

There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.

— Sai Baba

“It is not possible to spend any prolonged period visiting public school classrooms without being appalled by the mutilation visible everywhere—mutilation of spontaneity, of…

— John Holt

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Anyone who fears, as I do, that today's public schools are dangerously close to being irrelevant must read this book. The authors provide a…

— John Merrow