#cho

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

#blame #child #education #him #home

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#deal #echo #great #great deal #kiss

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. ↗

— George Eliot

#again #choice #choose #divine #god

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#executive #hell #legislature #men #office

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#awful #basically #college #come #equal

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#beautiful #does #ear #echoing #eggs

Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#nationally #overwhelmingly #per #pupil #receive

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another? ↗

— James D. Houston

#basic #choose #rather #set #than

I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time. ↗

— Sam Houston

#after #did #died #doubt #eight

My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year. ↗

— John Howe

#art #art school #arts #bit #college