I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war.
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
When schools flourish, all flourishes.
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, ’I want to do it!’ But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children’s needs, they say, ‘Help me to do it alone.
There is only one school of literature - that of talent.
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
Family is the most important school.
Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.