No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life. Cyril Connolly
You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life. Emo Philips
People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system. Max Hastings
All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane. Diana Wynne Jones
The story of your youth must not turn into a catalog of what became important in your later life. It must also contain the dissipation, the failure, and the waste. Elias Canetti
Children sometimes see things clearly that are obscured in later life. Roger Penrose