School

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
- Ernest Renan

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.
- John Boynton Priestley, 1894 - 1984

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

What did you ask at school today?
- Richard Feynman, 1918 - 1988

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
- John W. Gardner, 1912 - 2002

If you wants to get elected president, you'se got to think up some memoraboble homily so's school kids can be Pestered into memorizin' it, even if they don't know what it means.
- Walt Kelly, 1913 - 1973