“Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise.” MenShouldRoomsBoysHe ManShould HaveLet MePraiseCreditLike MeLimelight Author:Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
“Every age and degree of understanding should have its proper measure of discipline. With regard to boys and adolescents, therefore, or those who cannot understand the seriousness of the penalty of excommunication, whenever such as these are delinquent let them be subjected to severe fasts or brought to terms by harsh beatings, that they may be cured.” ShouldMayAgeUnderstandingTermBoysDisciplineDegreesShould HaveRegardPenaltiesHarshSevereSeriousnessDelinquentsExcommunication Book:St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries Source: St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries
“Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.” ThinkingWayShouldLooksMightParentAttentionBoysTaughtExerciseShould HaveLipsCupsPay AttentionVictorianDashing Book:No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp Source: No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp
“Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.” ShouldWarPeaceBoysShould HaveVietnamVietnam WarGod HelpTexanAlamo Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“...I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything living that wore chains, especially sex chains. It that meant poverty for myself and my boy then poverty we should have to suffer. If it meant social ostracism, if it meant relinquishing the literary success that lay within my grasp, then let the success go.” IfsShouldSufferingOpportunitySocialSexBoysPovertyBattleShould HaveLaysChainsMy BoysRelinquishingOstracismSocial Ostracism Book:A woman of fifty Source: A woman of fifty
“The study of tools as well as of books should have a place in the public schools. Tools, machinery, and the implements of the farmshould be made familiar to every boy, and suitable industrial education should be furnished for every girl.” ShouldWellsMadeBookSchoolGirlEducationBoysStudyToolsShould HaveFamiliarMachineryPublic SchoolSuitableEvery Girl Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should have the opportunity of teaching itself. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.” IfsKnowsShouldFirstsChildrenLittlesDoeImportantMatterSchoolScienceHateOpportunityEducationBoysTeachKnowingTeachingTaughtLessonsShould HaveImportant ThingsForgottenThirstPupilsDoes It MatterThirst For Knowledge Author:John Lubbock
“When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.” ShouldLittlesBookReadingBoysKingsShould HaveInterfereMistressMonarchyLittle BoysHistory BooksReading History Author:Stanley Baldwin