Hector Hugh Munro Quotes

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

Although children are good and well born, vice will blight them if they are not well educated.

We've never tried to educate children. We've never tried to preach to them, just entertain.

I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.

Going to our school is an education in itself which is not to be confused with actually getting an education.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?

My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.

I didn't go to college, but if I did, I would've taken all my tests at a restaurant, 'cause 'The customer is always right'.

Every home is a house of learning either for good or otherwise.

The problem with education is school.

Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.

We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic.

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.

I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them men, citizens, and Christians. The vices of young people are generally learned from each other. The vices of adults seldom infect them. By separating them from each other, therefore, in their hours of relaxation from study, we secure their morals from a principal source of corruption, while we improve their manners by subjecting them to those restraints which the difference of age and sex naturally produce in private families.

All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

Education is suffering from narration sickness.