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No one can
look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they
were altogether unhappy.
-- George Orwell
1903-1950, British Author,
''Animal Farm''
No trace of
slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man.
No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the
memory.
-- Plato
BC 427?-347?, Greek
Philosopher
Of all cursed
places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly
pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls boarding-school
is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the
name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything
but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate. They
are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the
question, ''Into how little space a human being can be
crushed?'' I have seen some souls so compressed that they
would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to
move there -- wide room. A woman who has been for many years
at one of those places carries the mark of the beast on her
till she dies.
-- Olive Schreiner
That's the
public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but
they never let you down.
-- Evelyn Waugh
1903-1966, British Novelist
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