Polite Form

Famous quotes containing the words polite and/or form:

“Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child’s life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play—that embryonic notion of kindergarten.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)