#school

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did. ↗

— William Shatner

#because #cards #did #else #grade

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

#enlarged #forms #free #good #government

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#enemy #free #more #officer #pupil

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#elementary #elementary school #falls #grade #grade school

One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school. ↗

— James Sinegal

#always #been #children #class #could

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#boarding #boarding school #day #everyone #everything

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#been #broken #chaotic #crime #domestic

To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#diligence #i #i tried #into #laws

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#experience #far #go #instruction #learned

I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#doing #going #here #i #involve