Famous quotes containing the words learning and/or schools:
“It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.”
—William Cobbett (1762–1835)
“The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)