#school

"I want to open up a School of Cannibalism. It’ll be a feeder school for top law schools."

"Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science."

"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!"

"It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life."

"I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her."

"Simply just BE GRATEFUL what you have today, there is millions who'are crying for the place where you are today"

"I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed."

"In high school I used to write my love notes backwards, so she'd have to flip the paper upside-down to read it. Either that or read it in a mirror, so she can see herself as I see her, and see why I admire her."

"I want to kidnap kids and force them to take useless tests all day long. Wait, that’s what our public education system already does."

"Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack."

"The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next."

"Last year, millions of students didn’t graduate from high school. They didn’t drop out, they were simply in elementary and middle schools."

"Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite."

"Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. Be patient. Just as there are ugly ducklings that turn into beautiful swans, there are rebellious kids and slow learners that turn into serious innovators and hardcore intellectuals."

"Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy."

"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding."

"In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk."

"If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences."

"Everything I need to know... I learned in kindergarten."