SCHOOL

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1. The nation that has the schools has the future.—BISMARCK
   

2. "Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."—LEWIS CARROLL, Alice in Wonderland
   

3. Better build schoolrooms for "the boy"
   Than cells and gibbets for "the man."—ELIZA COOK, A Song for the Ragged Schools
   

4. The sounding jargon of the schools.—COWPER, Truth
   

5. There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
   

6. Still sits the school-house by the road,
   A ragged beggar sunning;
   Around it still the sumachs grow
   And blackberry vines are running.—WHITTIER, In School Days