Latin American Education

Famous quotes containing the words latin, american and/or education:

“You send your child to the schoolmaster, but ‘tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of his tuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

“I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)