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“While Dawn worked two jobs to meet ends, her son was busy cutting school and hanging with his friends.”

Two Ends School Jobs Education Cutting Son Busy Dawn Two Jobs

Author:Slick Rick

“About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.”

Men Life Is Education Son Accomplish Harvard

Author:E. W. Howe

“You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .”

Ideas Moments Able Form Speak Education Son Your Son

Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.”

Parent Common Education Son Common Sense Expenses Evermore

Author:John Dryden

“It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.”

Should Parent Education Son Train Noble Evident

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.”

Men Education Rich Son University Rich Man Aptitude

Author:Kin Hubbard

“At cheaper and nearer seats of Learning parents with slender incomes may place their sons in a course of education putting them on a level with the sons of the Richest.”

May Courses Parent Levels Education Son Income Seats Cheaper Slender

Book:1816-1828

Source: 1816-1828

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”

Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

“If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.”

Ifs Mother Choices Opportunity Education Son Daughter My Daughter My Son Educate Constraints Constrain

Author:Brigham Young

“I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.”

Pay Education Son Educational My Son Educate

Book:The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson