George Orwell quotes about education
8 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as George Orwell wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around. Drawn from the 146 in the full collection.
The fees come first, and everything else comes afterwards.
So long as schools are run primarily for money, things like this will happen.
The year is 1910—or 1940, but it is all the same.
WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
From the books
Every book with a quote collection of its own, each line verified against the text.
- A Clergyman's Daughter quotes · 10 lines (1935)
- Animal Farm quotes · 11 lines (1945)
- Burmese Days quotes · 11 lines (1934)
- Coming Up for Air quotes · 12 lines (1939)
- Critical Essays quotes · 14 lines (1946)
- Down and Out in Paris and London quotes · 8 lines (1933)
- Homage to Catalonia quotes · 12 lines (1938)
- Inside the Whale and Other Essays quotes · 10 lines (1940)
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying quotes · 10 lines (1936)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four quotes · 17 lines (1949)
- The Lion and the Unicorn quotes · 13 lines (1941)
- The Road to Wigan Pier quotes · 11 lines (1937)
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