"How I hated this school, and what..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.
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“The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.”
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“We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.”
“It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own mind pulsates with the great ebbs and flows of popular delusion and emotion, the more admirably he performs his function. He may be an ass, but that is surely no demerit in a man paid to make asses of his customers.”
“A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.”
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“In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.”
“Nobody's cooler than my two girls. They just seem to take whatever comes with, you know - happiness and - steadiness. And they're loving school. They're making friends... and - they've already joined some clubs. And Sasha, you know - I think maybe to endear - myself to her, she - she decided she wanted to join a basketball team. So - what more could I want?”
“All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.”