The poorest children in a community now find the beneficent kindergarten open to them from the age of two-and-a-half to six years.... Too young heretofore to be eligible to any public school, they have acquired in their babyhood the vicious tendencies of their own depraved neighborhoods; and to their environment at that tender age had been due the loss of decency and self-respect that no after example of education has been able to restore to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people. While we have class and sectarian schools th...e parties supporting them will not give their fullest aid toward building up the public school system. If all of the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money and energies on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. To be a success a republic must have a homogeneous people, and to do this it must have homogeneous schools.... I grow more and more opposed to [sectarian schools].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A great deal of unnecessary worry is indulged in by theatregoers trying to understand what Bernard Shaw means. They are not satisf...ied to listen to a pleasantly written scene in which three or four clever people say clever things, but they need to purse their lips and scowl a little and debate as to whether Shaw meant the lines to be an attack on monogamy as an institution or a plea for manual training in the public school system.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He had first discovered a propensity for savagery in the acrid lavatories of a minor English public school where he used to press ...the heads of the new boys into the ceramic bowl and pull the flush upon them to drown their gurgling protests.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of al...l the calamaties which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not that the Englishman can't feel--it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is... bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks--his pipe might fall out if he did.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... dissatisfied with city expenditures, the inequality of public school education, (sexualizing education), your remonstrant pays... her taxes compulsorily instead of cheerfully, feeling within her that element of patriotism which inspired her as well as your forefathers, in the utterance of that deep, full, and clear sentiment, "Taxation without representation is tyranny."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You know, he wanted to shoot the Royal Family, abolish marriage, and put everybody who'd been to public school in a chain gang. Ye...ah, he was a idealist, your dad was.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He was the product of an English public school and university. He was, moreover, a modern product of those seats of athletic exerc...ise. He had little education and highly developed muscles--that is to say, he was no scholar, but essentially a gentleman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »