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Quotes about school
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I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power. (Culkin Kieran)
What we must look for here is, firstly, religious and moral principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduct; thirdly, intellectual ability. (Culkin Kieran)
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. (Culkin Kieran)
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual. (Culkin Kieran)
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I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. (Culkin Kieran)
Minerva House was a finishing establishment for young ladies, where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing. (Culkin Kieran)
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness. (Culkin Kieran)
I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. (Culkin Kieran)
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. (Culkin Kieran)
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. (Culkin Kieran)
The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity. (Culkin Kieran)
My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety. (Culkin Kieran)
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there. (Culkin Kieran)
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. (Culkin Kieran)
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. (Culkin Kieran)
Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate. They are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, Into how little space a human being can be crushed? I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move there -- wide room. A woman who has been for many years at one of those places carries the mark of the beast on her till she dies. (Culkin Kieran)
We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools;that's the only way most of us got through. (Culkin Kieran)
God made the idiot for practice, then He made the school board. (Culkin Kieran)
School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it. (Culkin Kieran)
An artificial field would be a godsend to some schools. (Culkin Kieran)
The only issue is there is not a big group of officials available early in the day. I think all schools would like to try to go to afternoon games at some point, but with the availability of officials, it probably won't happen. (Culkin Kieran)
I was very lazy in the sixth form at school, I wasn't motivated properly, I handled it very badly and I was not given a place at university to study medicine. (Culkin Kieran)
I didn't go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks later, was offered a professional job, where I am immensely grateful to the journey. (Culkin Kieran)
Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. The rumor was I was a junkie. I have dark circles under my eyes, deal with it. (Culkin Kieran)
We even went to a class about financial aid at the school, ... We thought, 'Oh, we're going to learn all about financial aid tonight.' We walked away and we didn't know any more than the day we walked into the class. (Culkin Kieran)
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