#schools

Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

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Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#even #inferiority #must #places #schools

Schoolmastering kept me busy by day and part of each night. I was an assistant housemaster, with a fine big room under the eaves of the main building, and a wretched kennel of a bedroom, and rights in a bathroom used by two or three other resident masters. I taught all day, but my wooden leg mercifully spared me from the nuisance of having to supervise sports after school. There were exercises to mark every night, but I soon gained a professional attitude towards these woeful explorations of the caves of ignorance and did not let them depress me. I liked the company of most of my colleagues, who were about equally divided among good men who were good teachers, awful men who were awful teachers, and the grotesques and misfits who drift into teaching and are so often the most educative influences a boy meets in school. If a boy can't have a good teacher, give him a psychological cripple or an exotic failure to cope with; don't just give him a bad, dull teacher. This is where the private schools score over state-run schools; they can accommodate a few cultured madmen on the staff without having to offer explanations. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#private-schools #teachers #teaching #attitude

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#attend #calculation #children #cost #inhabiting

Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#female #great #list #might #patronage

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#acquainted #anniversary #attending #australia #children

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. ↗

— Martin Luther

#am #diligently #explaining #gates #heart

A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#academic #account #cell #cell phone #children

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#educate #knew #knows #must #now

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

#civilized #civilized society #cornerstones #exist #good