Famous quotes containing the words schools and/or operate:
“The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorise the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)