Source: The Song of Achilles
“Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.”
Aids to Scoutmastership (1920)
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Tweets by year, 2015
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Context: Some distinguished philosophers think that boys' eyes should be taught or trained to the examination of objects: in other words, that boys should be taught to observe things and to see likeness and difference. It is done to some extent by all boys: their games teach them something, and they know a cake from an apple. But the power of careful, patient looking at a thing is not fully acquired without some pains on the part of a teacher. When a boy reads aloud, he must look carefully at the words and letters, or he will blunder. This is an instance of observation. But the philosophers mean, I believe, that we should introduce certain things called sciences into school teaching.
“Boys will be boys. Boys commit mistakes.”
Comments in opposition to a change in law against rape. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/31/india-gang-rape-katra-sadatgunj-fathyer-speaks Burke, Jason (31 May 2014)
“A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.”
Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Pearce
Misattributed
“After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy?”
Source: Love the One You're With
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
“I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.”
Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
