Show me the man who has enjoyed his school days and I will show you a bully and a bore.

— Robert Morley

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

— Elbert Hubbard

A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.

— Helen Keller

Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

— Ecclesiastes 12:12

You can’t expect a boy to be vicious until he’s been to a good school.

— Saki (H. H. Munro)

The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor great teachers great men.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to use his own powers for social ends.

— John Dewey

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but ‘tis the schoolboys who educate him.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

...the common school, improved and energized as if can easily be, may become the most effective and benignant of all the forces of civilization.

— Horace Mann

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

— Mark Twain

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

— Fran Lebowitz

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

— Mark Twain

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.

— J. B. Priestley

It costs more now to amuse a child than it used to cost to educate his father.

The third grader came home thrilled with that day’s substitute teacher. "She only made us follow two rules," reported the little girl cheerfully. "Sit down, and shut up."

What’s the problem with a liberal arts education? — It leaves you well rounded, but not pointed in any direction.