The boys, as they talked to the girls from Marcia Blaine School, stood on the far side of their bicycles holding the handlebars, which established a protective fence of bicycle between the sexes, and the impression that at any moment the boys were likely to be away.
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I do not have any formal education. What use is education when we do not become human beings? My school is the welfare of humanity.
If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.
I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.
I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teac…
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with an ill bringing-up, are far more fatal than total ignorance.
— Plato, amazon.com
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.