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The school
«Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.»
Author: Booth Tarkington
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
boyhood, last decade, millennia, millennium, school term, school year, The Millennium, The school
«America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.»
Author: Jane Addams
(Founder, Social worker)
| About:
America and Americans,
Living,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
America, and how, determined, hence, How We Live, largely, school, The school
«A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium»
Author: Mary Kay Blakely
| About:
Mothers
| Keywords:
call at, cocky, gymnasium, motorcycle, motorcycles, principal, report, school principal, The school
«Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
(Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Adversity,
Morality,
Prosperity,
Virtue
| Keywords:
continuous, preserved, School of, The school
«As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us»
«But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.»
«According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.»
«God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
board, boarded, boarding, boarding school, Board of, idiot, practice, school, school board, The Idiot, The school