The road may be rough, the journey may be tough and the experience may be bitter, but they are stepping stones to our future thrones

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing

By passing your GCSEs you prove that you’re not an idiot… But by passing your A levels you prove that you’re smart

I still remember my middle school locker combination. Maybe I should go back to my old locker to see if I left my innocence in there.

An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader.

Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell 'em.

You don’t really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam.

Starving whilst schooled is like a man’s finding out that his wife is on her periods … a few seconds after he took Viagra.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up

I want to kidnap kids and force them to take useless tests all day long. Wait, that’s what our public education system already does.

No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness.

You show me a school with a principal behind the desk, and I'll show you a school without principal leadership. (Quoting Baruti Kafele)

Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and 'caning' sounds more English than 'having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

I’ve been thinking that you, me and Kristy should all have a sleepover or something like that. Wouldn‘t that be so cool! - Carol