"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."
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"[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism andcompromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting itinstead into meek subservience to authority."
"A leader should always be open to criticism, not silencing dissent. Any leader who does not tolerate criticism from the public is afraid of their dirty hands to be revealed under heavy light. And such a leader is dangerous, because they only feel secure in the darkness. Only a leader who is free from corruption welcomes scrutiny; for scrutiny allows a good leader to be an even greater leader."
"I want to open up a School of Cannibalism. It’ll be a feeder school for top law schools."
"I once tried to light a joint with a fire ant, but what did I know? I was high on glue and in the third grade, just like grandpa."
"The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.'Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?'That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap."
"It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling."
"What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship."
"School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age."
"Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)"
"Tie me up, please..."Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the depression in the canal they were standing in. She was in his hands—he had to comply.A little bit of kink was one of the most delicious of erotic pleasures. Catholic school girls were often the horniest—Brett could hardly contain his elation."
"Nobody can make you feel ignorant but you—the you from before, the one who skipped school and slept in class. By you, of course, I mean me."
"Your friends can be double-edged knife thy can either nurture you or destroy you. Choose them Wisely......"
"The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election."
"I'll be famous one day, but for now I'm stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons."- Greg Heffley,"
"You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go."
"I think the key indicator for wealth is not good grades, work ethic, or IQ. I believe it's relationships. Ask yourself two questions: How many people do I know, and how much ransom money could I get for each one?"
"What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education."
"CONJUGATE THIS:I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish because I did not go to Spanish today. Gracias a dios. Hasta luego."
"Should I have a doughnut or my disgusting cardboard?” asked Gwynn, as she drew up languidly before me at a study table in a bookstore on State Street, raising a puffed rice cake in the air. My eyes narrowed attentively at her face, but as I hesitated, she announced eagerly, “Disgusting cardboard it is!"