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When I am writing a novel I must actually live the lives of my characters. If, for instance, my hero is a gambler on the French Ri ...

Robert Benchley

writers and writing

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One of the benefits of a college education is, to show the boy its little avail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

universities and colleges | education

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Hereabouts our Indian told us at length the story of their contention with the priest respecting schools. He thought a great deal ... of education and had recommended it to his tribe. His argument in its favor was, that if you had been to college and learnt to calculate, you could "keep 'um property,--no other way." He said that his boy was the best scholar in the school at Oldtown, to which he went with whites. He himself is a Protestant, and goes to church regularly at Oldtown. According to his account, a good many of his tribe are Protestants, and many of the Catholics also are in favor of schools. Some years ago they had a schoolmaster, a Protestant, whom they liked very well. The priest came and said that they must send him away, and finally he had such influence, telling them that they would go to the bad place at last if they retained him, that they sent him away. The school party, though numerous, were about giving up. Bishop Fenwick came from Boston and used his influence against them. But our Indian told his side that they must not give up, must hold on, they were the strongest. If they gave up, then they would have no party. But they answered that it was "no use, priest too strong, we'd better give up." At length he persuaded them to make a stand.
The priest was going for a sign to cut down the liberty-pole. So Polis and his party had a secret meeting about it; he got ready fifteen or twenty stout young men, "stript 'um naked, and painted 'um like old times," and told them that when the priest and his party went to cut down the liberty-pole, they were to rush up, take hold of it, and prevent them, and he assured them that there would be no war, only noise,--"no war where priest is." He kept his men concealed in a house near by, and when the priest's party were about to cut down the liberty-pole, the fall of which would have been a death-blow to the school party, he gave a signal, and his young men rushed out and seized the pole. There was a great uproar, and they were about coming to blows, but the priest interfered, saying, "No war, no war," and so the pole stands, and the school goes on still.
We thought that it showed a good deal of tact in him, to seize the occasion and take his stand on it; proving how well he understood those with whom he had to deal.

Henry David Thoreau

education | clergy | intolerance, religious

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I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year ... for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the bo ...

Woody Allen

metaphysics

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If any proof were needed of the progress of the cause for which I have worked, it is here tonight. The presence on the stage of th ...

Susan B. Anthony

education of females

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The boy seemed to have fallen
From shelf to shelf of someone's rage.

John Ashbery

child abuse

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But a dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down--very important traits in times l ...

Robert Benchley

pets

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How can I ignore
the boy next door?

Ralph Blane

love's effects | neighbors

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I do not think that a Physician should be admitted into the College till he could bring proofs of his having cured, in his own per ...

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th Earl

doctors | medicine

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Then let not what I cannot have
My cheer of mind destroy. ...

Colley Cibber

cheerfulness | blindness | contentment

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