Quote by John Updike
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. – John Updike

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Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike

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True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility. – Philip Pullman

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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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