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"For me death is just moving from one school into another. But there's going to be a difference, because in that new school I shall have wings so I wont need to walk up and down the stairs!" »Paul F. Meekin
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"For me death is just moving from one school into another. But there's going to be a difference, because in that new school I shall have wings so I wont need to walk up and down the stairs!" »Paul. F. Meekin
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"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed." »William John Bennett
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"Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking." »R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
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"It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days." »Isabel Waxman
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"Pleasure, most often delusive, may be born of delusion. Pleasure, herself a sorceress, may pitch her tents on enchanted ground. But happiness (or, to use a more accurate and comprehensive term, solid well-being) can be built on virtue alone, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation." »Coleridge
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""A school cannot exist as a permanent form of education.
It can only exist until the student discovers that they can learn
more themselves from the real world. From that moment on
the majority always look for the most promising place the highest
wisdom outside of school, with the result of schooling
always collapsing over lifes education."" »Paul. F. Meekin
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"comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter. Speech is often barren, but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion." »George Eliot
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"If kids come to our school from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes my job easier. If they do not come to our school from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes my job more important." »Paul. F. Meekin
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"What did you ask at school today" »Richard Fenyman
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"If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?" »Calvin Trillin
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"We learn not in the school, but in life." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." »Edmund Burke
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"Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality." »Beatrix Potter
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"We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school." »Peter De Vries
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"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum." »Menander
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"Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications." »Fran Lebowitz
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"Experience is a good school, but the fees are high." »Heinrich Heine
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"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school." »Albert Einstein
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"Out of life's school of war What does not destroy me, makes me stronger." »Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Today my spirit is going to school while my body stays in bed." »Bill Watterson, "Calvin", Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
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"Experience is an expensive school, but a fool will learn from no other." »Japanese Proverb
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"The home is the chief school of human virtues." »William Ellery Channing
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"He who opens a school door, closes a prison." »Victor Hugo
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"I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity." »Orlando Bloom
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"High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of." »Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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"A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education." »Smiley Blanton
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"If you had to have a diploma or a GED to collect unemployment, you'd see a lot more kids staying in school." »Wayne Knight
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