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I was allowed
to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in
assembly. It was the beginning of power.
-- Jeffrey Archer
1940-, British Conservative
Politician, Novelist
What we must
look for here is, firstly, religious and moral principles;
secondly, gentlemanly conduct; thirdly, intellectual
ability.
-- Thomas Arnold
1795-1842, British Educator,
Scholar
The difference
between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson
and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that
teaches you a lesson.
-- Tom Bodett
American Author, TV Host
It is always
safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture
to instruct, even our friends.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman
Writer
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Were I to
deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might
be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the
theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great
public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so
intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their
development. From these it results that the greater part of
the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded,
self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last
analysis homosexual.
-- Cyril Connolly
1903-1974, British Critic
I was asked to
memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so
good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
-- Aleister Crowley
1875-1947, British Occultist
Minerva House
was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where
some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen
inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a
knowledge of nothing.
-- Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist
In the
schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong
starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which
saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
-- George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist
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