Famous quotes containing the words state and/or schools:
“The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)