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“To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.”

Should Home School Purpose Realizing Advice Masters Expenses Grandfather Great Grandfather

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools.”

Thinking School Passion Masters Agree Harm Features Public School Redeeming Eton

Author:Aleister Crowley

“Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant blunders. Entire schools have been founded on misinterpretations of certain aspects of the masters. Lamentable mistakes have resulted from the thoughtless enthusiasm with which men have sought inspiration from the worst qualities of remarkable artists because they are unable to reproduce the sublime elements in their work.”

“The disciples were not losing time when they sat beside their Master, and held quiet converse with Him under the olives of Bethany or by the shores of Galilee. Those were their school-hours; those were their feeding times.”

School Hours Masters Quiet Losing Sat Shore Disciple Feeding Converses Olives Losing Time School Hours

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things of the student because the student is in graduate school.”

School Practice Students Masters Graduates Graduate School Zen Master

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses.”

School Study Wind Masters Degrees Glasses Plastic Being Famous

Author:Sally Jessy Raphael

“It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.”

Children Play School Social Environment Masters Skills Warm Critical Attractive Formal Spend Time Schooling Social Skills

Author:Michael Gove

“God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd, The somber human troop.”

Mind Humans Ends Sometimes Hands School Law Women Voice Masters Proud Succeed Equal Harmony Crowds Appreciation Manners Gentle Reeds Somber Cedars

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

“A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.”

World Years School Boys Study Five Youth Masters Public School True Wisdom Knowledge Of The World

Book:An inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The Bee. History of Cyrillo Padovano. Life of Dr. Parnell. Life of Lord Bolingbroke. Prefaces and introductions

Source: An inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The Bee. History of Cyrillo Padovano. Life of Dr. Parnell. Life of Lord Bolingbroke. Prefaces and introductions

“We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.”

Soul Body School Masters Higher Treatment Physicians

Book:The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Source: The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition.”

Firsts Bigs School Jobs Roles Wife Masters Silly Versions Recognition Arthur

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them in their students.”

School Teacher Students College Masters Integrity Tools Instill

Book:Confessions of a Technophile

Source: Confessions of a Technophile