Edmund Barton Quotes

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

I went to public school my entire life.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.

My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.

I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools).

I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.

My parents decided - because they were not going to teach us anything Jewish at home - to send both me and my sister to a Jewish primary school. So I went to Kerem Primary School in Hampstead Garden Suburb. But, for me, that school really didn't work that well.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.

Since the association of seasonal activities with religious activities in the public schools tends to pervert their religious significance, such association be discouraged as foreign to the purpose of the public schools.

Education proceeds ultimately from the patterns furnished by institutions, customs, and laws.

I've gone to real school my whole life.