Dame Allans School

Famous quotes containing the words dame and/or school:

    “Come dame or maid, be not afraid,
    Poor Tom will injure nothing.”
    —Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 11–12)

    “Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it also helps to make children more malleable and responsive to a changing world. By the same token, one could say that absolute homogeneity between family and school would reflect a static, authoritarian society and discourage creative, adaptive development in children.”
    —Sara Lawrence Lightfoot (20th century)