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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.

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More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.

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My high school was run by the Jesuits, and boy were they tough!

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My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.

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My regular school didn’t know what to do with me!

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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

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Not only the needle-gun, but the schools have won our battles.

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Now since the young must leap and jump, or have something to do, because they have a natural desire for it which should not be restrained (for it is not well to check them in everything) why should we not provide for them such schools, and lay before them such studies? Martin Luther| A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine

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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.

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Oft in the lone churchyard at night I’ve seen, By glimpse of moonshine, chequering through the trees, The school-boy with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up; And lightly tripping o’er the long flat stones, (With nettles skirted, and with moss o’ergrown, That tell in homely phrase who lie below;) Sudden he starts! and hears, or thinks he hears, The sound of something purring at his heels.

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Once he goes to school things are really going to have to change at supposedly that point. ‘Cause I don’t think I’d like to do anything, you know, more than pick him up from the school gate every day.

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One of the reasons why Brooklyn didn’t go to a (Spanish) school was because of the press attention,

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People would see me on a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day in school.

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Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

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School districts are charged with responsibility to offer to each disabled child an individualized education program (IEP) suitable to the child


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