# Quote — Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm

> “I have discovered that of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls' boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate.”

- Author: [Olive Schreiner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olive-schreiner.md)
- Book: [The Story of an African Farm](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olive-schreiner/the-story-of-an-african-farm.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Olive_Schreiner#The_Story_of_an_African_Farm_(1883)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/olive-schreiner/the-story-of-an-african-farm/i-have-discovered

## More from this book

> “On the path to truth, at every step, you set your foot down on your own heart.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olive-schreiner/the-story-of-an-african-farm/on-the-path.md)

> “If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olive-schreiner/the-story-of-an-african-farm/if-the-bird.md)

> We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olive-schreiner/the-story-of-an-african-farm/we-have-been.md)