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The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.

I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.