Quote by Margaret Laurence
Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, i

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. – Margaret Laurence

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In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. – Margaret Laurence

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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

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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. – Al McGuire

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Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. – William Haley

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Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. – Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928

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