1,743 Quotes About Class

The world is the best teacher, especially to those that refuse to learn from their parents. In her class you can't drop or skip a lesson.

There's no more education, no more culture - if culture depends on a commonly understood history - and perhaps no more middle class in the United States. There's War.

The radical implication of the expansion of higher education has been disguised by a myth which dubs all educated working class people as middle class. By definition working class people are not intelligent, so if you've got a degree you must be middle class. This nonsense is reinforced by the fact that acedemic traditions are laden with class assumptions and are presented in upper class styles even in the Polytechnics.

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.

Why does he need to produce more? Production has become an important part of the school curriculum. Learn more, produce more and do it in less or equal time. It is as if the school is now a factory

I thought, you see, that there must be some connection between money and memorable experience; between rare wine and rare intelligence. In short, I was a romantic idiot.

A, собственно, что такое класс? Это сорок душ, сорок разных характеров. А за этими сорока душами - сорок разных семей, и каждая семья со своим укладом, и каждый уклад посеял свое, доброе или худое, в душе ребенка.

Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.

He was stupid, yes; he had never had any schooling; he didn't know how to explain himself. Was he in jail because he doesn't know how to explain things right? What was wrong with his being stupid? He worked like a slave, day in and day out. [...] Was it his fault he was stupid? Who was to blame?