Quotes Tagged "boarding-school"

If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God’s chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business.
Tags: short-stories, roald-dahl, religion, innocence, childhood, boarding-school, autobiography
This was school, and everything he'd feared. Barren, jarring, stale, always lonely and never alone. He had known it would be bad, and it was.
Tags: school, education, boarding-school
The forward momentum of British educations cannot be resisted: a relentless fascist machine that will spit them out the other side as soldiers or sexless governors-general and the like. All he can do is plant some small seed of independent thought in their minds. He is sorry for them and what is coming: every rottenness and corruption.
Tags: teaching, teacher, obedience, independent-thought, independence, fascism, education-system, education, corruption, boarding-school