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The thing about witchcraft, said Mistress Weatherwax, is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect

The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect

Terry Pratchett
School, Years, Mistress
"The Wee Free Men". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2003.

I taught myself more in the library than school taught me.

Terry Pratchett
School, Library, Taught

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

Terry Pratchett
School, Trying, Opinion
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.25, Random House

People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.

Terry Pratchett
Stars, School, People

Funny, reely," he said. "You spend your whole life goin' to school and learnin' stuff, and they never tell you about stuff like the Bermuda Triangle and UFOs and all these Old Masters running around the inside of the Earth. Why do we have to learn boring stuff when there's all this brilliant stuff we could be learnin', that's what I want to know.

Terry Pratchett
Running, School, Triangles

I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by working on newspapers, because you got paid at the end of the week or the end of the month.

Terry Pratchett
School, Order, Way
Source: www.theguardian.com

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