British Education System Quotes

Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.

I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there.

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

Almost everyone who's been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play.

Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country.

There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language that is somehow not as clear in a lot of American schools.

I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.

I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.