| "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 |
| "It is as natural to die as to be born and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." »Francis Bacon |
| "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 |
| "Original Poems for infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell,And would some pretty story tell,Or kiss the place to make it wellMy Mother." »Anonymous |
| "To Tennessee Williams, children were 'no-neck monsters,' while William Wordsworth apotheosized the newborn infant as a 'Mighty Prophet Seer Blest' Most adults know the truth is somewhere in between." »Eloise Salholz |
| "I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic." »Winston Churchill |
| "What did you ask at school today" »Richard Fenyman |
| "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." »Edmund Burke |
| "We learn not in the school, but in life." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality." »Beatrix Potter |
| "Experience is an expensive school, but a fool will learn from no other." »Japanese Proverb |
| "He who opens a school door, closes a prison." »Victor Hugo |
| "Experience is a good school, but the fees are high." »Heinrich Heine |
| "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school." »Albert Einstein |
| "Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications." »Fran Lebowitz |
| "The home is the chief school of human virtues." »William Ellery Channing |
| "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did." »Lawrence Peter Berra |
| "A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education." »Smiley Blanton |
| "High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of." »Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| "Out of life's school of war What does not destroy me, makes me stronger." »Friedrich Nietzsche |
| "In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld." »Peter Drucker |
| "Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul" »John Keats |
| "Wooderson That's what I like about these high school girls, I keep getting older, they stay the same age." »Dazed and Confused |
| "Grade school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life." »John Rogers |
| "I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers." »Woody Allen |
| "Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait." »A. Whitney Brown |
| "I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school you feel you've achieved something when you haven't." »Dodie Smith |
| "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 |
| "Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him." »Geoffrey Holder |
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