Quotes on School

The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.

I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of liberty.'

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.

Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.

Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.

It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.

Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

You will make a lousy anybody else, but you will be the best "you" in existence.

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.