Quotes: Back to School

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
                                                                              ~Edgar W. Howe


Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation.  If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
                                                                              ~Erma Bombeck


Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day.  It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.  
                                                                              ~Bill Dodds


The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
                                                                              ~Sydney J. Harris

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him.
                                                                              ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so.  After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.
                                                                               ~Margaret Laurence

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
                                                                               ~John Dewey


The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
                                                                               ~Robert Maynard Hutchins


As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.
                                                                              ~Author Unknown


I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
                                                                                 ~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"


The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
                                                                                 ~Author Unknown

There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August.
                                                                                 ~Author Unknown


The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
                                                                                 ~Ralph W. Sockman


What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.                                                                                   ~George Bernard Shaw


The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
                                                                                ~Aristotle

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.
                                                                                 ~Robert Gallagher


It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it.
                                                                               ~Finley Peter Dunne


You can get all A's and still flunk life.
                                                                                ~Walker Percy

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
                                                                               ~Edward Everett


He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
                                                                               ~Victor Hugo














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