Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on School

I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
Henry Fielding (1707–54) English Novelist, Dramatist

School-days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn’t take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.
H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American Journalist, Literary Critic

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
George Orwell (1903–50) English Novelist, Journalist

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
William Glasser (b.1925) American Psychiatrist, Writer

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English Novelist

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman

A private school has all the faults of a public school without any of its compensations.
Cyril Connolly (1903–74) British Literary Critic, Writer

Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) British Children’s Author, Illustrator

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more you must have of the former.
Horace Mann (1796–1859) American Educator, Politician, Educationalist

My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers
Woody Allen (b.1935) American Film Actor, Director

Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet

What we must look for here is, firstly, religious and moral principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduct; thirdly, intellectual ability.
Thomas Arnold (1795–1842) English Educationalist

Experience keeps a dear school; but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
Maria Montessori (1870–1952) Italian Physician, Educator

I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) English Occultist, Mystic, Magician

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers
E. W. Howe (1853–1937) American Novelist, Editor

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American Businessperson, Engineer

That’s the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
Evelyn Waugh (1903–66) British Novelist, Essayist, Biographer

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
Vince Lombardi, Jr. (1913–70) American Football Player, Coach

Minerva House was “a finishing establishment for young ladies,” where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.
Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) American Head of State, Lawyer

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
William Glasser (b.1925) American Psychiatrist, Writer

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies, seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist

Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.
Cyril Connolly (1903–74) British Literary Critic, Writer

My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.
Hannah More

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State

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