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“School boys and discipline are almost by definition at odds with one another.”
— William S. Abell, Fifty Years At Garrett Park, 1919-1969: A History of the New Georgetown Preparatory School (1970), p. 115
“Boys always play better when they know the girls are watching.”
— Edgar Graham Gammon, 15th President of Hampdeny-Sydney College (1939-1955), writing in 1903, when he was a student at Hampden-Sydney in the Class of 1905. As quoted by John Luster Brinkley in On This Hill (1994), p. 431
“Boys everywhere are quick to recognize and respect any kind of talent in each other, and one of Will Rogers' best talents was talking.”
— Harold Keith, Will Rogers, A Boy's Life (1937)
“No one has the right to make a boy learn Latin, because learning is a matter for individual choice; but if in a Latin class, a boy fools all the time, the class should throw him out, because he interferes with the freedom of others.”
— A. S. Neill, Summerhill (1960)
“I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.”
— Bertrand Russell, Education and the Social Order (1932), p. 31
“Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra.”
— Blessings on your young courage, boy; that's the way to the stars.

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