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«Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.»
«...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets is each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness...»
«Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.»
Author: James Joyce | Keywords: irresponsibility, schools
«It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.»
«Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Genius | Keywords: abate, abated, abates, colleges, schools, traps
«If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.»
«Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.»
«Bad theaters are as mischievous as bad schools.»
«As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.»
«Don't marry a man to reform him--that's what reform schools are for.»
Author: Mae West (Actress) | Keywords: reform, reform school, schools

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