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Your Quotes for 29 August 2005 - School

I don't have any reason to pay attention to the school calendar, and since I pay little attention to local media I don't notice when the stores hold Back to School sales, but I still have a sense that summer is nearly over. I start seeing a big drop in the number of subscribers on vacation hold, and I get a flurry of requests to change subscribers' addresses from hotmail.com to something.edu. So, once again, it's Back to School Week at Quotes of the Day. We'll start with quotes on School itself.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
     - Herbert Clark Hoover, 1874 - 1964

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
     - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.
     - Maya Angelou

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
     - Sir William Haley

The nation that has the schools has the future.
     - Otto von Bismarck, 1815 - 1898

When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.
     - Paul Simon

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