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“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Life, I’ve learned, is never fair. If people teach anything in school, that should be it.” Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
“The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.” Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.” Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
“In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Presently it occurred to him that he wished he was sick; then he could stay home from school.” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“But the school in which good training is most practised will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations, produced by enthusiastic effort and infinite labour in every country of the world.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“Good jobs begin with good schools, and here we've made a fine start.” George W. Bush, State of the Union Address
“Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator
“But I can't help remembering that the world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
“I hope you’re pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed — or worse, expelled.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
“Monday morning found Tom Sawyer miserable. Monday morning always found him so—because it began another week's slow suffering in school. He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity...” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I’ve never been a purely linear thinker.” JAY-Z, Decoded
“There is more to do. We need to prepare our children to read and succeed in school with improved Head Start and early childhood development programs.” George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

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