Children Quote by Tom Paulin

School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential…

— Jules Henry

The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few children to…

— Angus Deaton

I taught four classes in my life. They were a master class at Northwestern and three classes at Emerson when I was making 'Here…

— Henry Winkler

I was always able to learn better in small classrooms. So my parents sent me to this private school called Heathwood.

— A'ja Wilson

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education,

— Rory Bremner

And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests,…

— John Updike

My son William is only nine but he's had four public schools so far, one in Cornwall, one when I was at Sheffield, one…

— Neil Warnock

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as…

— Richard Rogers

We lived in the schoolhouse of the village school in Church Preen, in deepest Shropshire, and my mum was the schoolmistress. She taught the…

— Mary Beard

I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether…

— Charles Dickens

I went to big, broken, under-resourced public schools, but we had a real sense of community, because those were days in the '50s and…

— Deval Patrick

I was there [in school] the full time with one teacher, and the student body was never more than 10 or 12 students of all ages.

— Paul Smith