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Back to School Quotes

"Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be

going back to school the next day. It would have been called

Independence Day, but that name was already taken."

- Bill Dodds

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

- Victor Hugo

"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter

the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold

of your mind."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Education is not filling a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- William Butler Yeats

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.

The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."

- William Arthur Ward

"You send your child to the schoolmaster,

but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If there were no schools to take the children away from home

part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers."

- Edgar W. Howe

"Schoolteachers are not fully appreciated by parents until it

rains all day Saturday."

- E. C. McKenzie

"When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name,

it means trouble."

- Mark Twain

"Home computers are being called upon to perform

many new functions, including the consumption of

homework formerly eaten by the dog."

- Doug Larson