# Quote — John Hoyer Updike, The Centaur

> The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.

- Author: [John Hoyer Updike](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike.md)
- Book: [The Centaur](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/the-centaur.md)
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- Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/education.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/the-centaur/the-founding-fathers
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## More from this book

> I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/the-centaur/i-must-go-to-nature.md)

Topics: [truth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth.md), [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md)