Famous quotes containing the words polish and/or schools:
“The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.”
—Frances Trollope (1780–1863)
“The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)