Quotes From "Life Among The Savages" By Shirley Jackson

Now, I have nothing against the public school system as...
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Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children.... Shirley Jackson
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I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime. Shirley Jackson