September is back-to-school month at Create. Join them in celebrating – or bemoaning – this fact.

Ah, school. Love it or hate it, for many years, it has been part of our lives. Either you're going, or you're teaching, or you've got kids who go, or…

The rest of you lucky people are probably planning to attend the Open University.

Check out these quotes by famous people past and present. Can you guess who said what about education? Match the quote to the author.

Quotes:

1. I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behaviour.
2. The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
3. A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means 'standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult.' In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented.
4. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
5. God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
6. A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
7. A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
8. I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
9. I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
10. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Think you knew all the quote-worthy sayings? Hit the books to find out.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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