“Let me make it clear: this grammar school boy will take no lessons from that public school boy on the importance of children from less privileged backgrounds gaining access to university.”

“Many faith schools achieve excellent results and I’m the first to support the great education they provide. I chose one for my own children. Today I visited King David’s school, a Jewish school here in Birmingham where the majority of children are from faith backgrounds.”

“There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.”

“I think it was born out of that grade school fantasy that a lot of nerds like me had, which was "I could probably get the cute red-headed girl that sits across from me, if only every other boy in the entire school dies."”

“The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.”

“Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.”

“I've had people working for me who are film-school graduates and honestly, if they had been clapper boys or tea boys they probably would have learned more.”

“Let us see to it that in our schools, as far as possible, every week, some lessons from Scripture, in the language of the Scripture are learned.”

“The threat to public schools arises from their defects, not their accomplishments. In small, closely knit communities where public schools, particularly elementary schools, are now reasonably satisfactory, not even the most comprehensive voucher plan would have much effect. The public schools would remain dominant, perhaps somewhat improved by the threat of potential competition. But elsewhere, and particularly in the urban slums where the public schools are doing such a poor job, most parents would undoubtedly try to send their children to nonpublic schools.”

“I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.”