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A
class
act
A little
learning
is a dangerous thing ( from a poem by Alexander Pope )
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Action Man ( children's male doll )
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Adaptive
learning
All children, except one, grow up ( the opening line of Peter Pan )
Alma Mater ( the school or college from which a person has graduated )
And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
And the
Academy
Award goes to...
Back to school
Baggage
class
Best in
class
Body
building
Book
learning
Both sides of the
desk
Building
castles in the air
Business
class
Cattle
class
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college
education
( Mark Twain quotation )
Chalk and talk
Charm school
Children
and fools tell the truth
Children
should be seen and not heard
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Children's shoes have far to go ( Start-Rite Shoes advertising slogan )
Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
Class
act
Class
warfare
Community of learners
Desk
jockey
Desk
rage
Desmond Tutu ( Cockney rhyming slang for Second
class
degree ( 2,2 ) )
Different
class
Distance
learning
Do your
homework
Driving a
desk
Economy
class
Economy
class
syndrome
Education
education
education
( Tony Blair political slogan )
Elvis has left the
building
Empire State
Building
Eton
blue
Every schoolboy knows
Experience is the best
teacher
Fag
hag
Far better for being near to you ( The Chesham
Building
Society advertising slogan )
Form is temporary,
class
is permanent
Frasier has left the
building
( A catchphrase from Frasier )
Glow Little Glow-worm ( children's nursery rhyme )
Go to the top of the
class
Goodnight
children
everywhere ( A catchphrase from Uncle Mac )
Grapes, like children, need love and affection ( Almaden advertising slogan )
Gravy
train
Hey, Soul Sister (
Train
song )
High
class
Hit the books
I'm going to tell on you
In a
class
of his own
Investments with Abbey endings ( Abbey National
Building
Society advertising slogan )
It's never too late to
learn
Lady Madonna,
children
at your feet ( Beatles song lyric )
Learn
the ropes
Learn
your
lesson
Learning
curve
Learning
difficulties
Let the
train
take the strain ( British Rail advertising slogan )
Let's rock ( A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With
Children
)
Life
lesson
Live and
learn
Live as if you will die tomorrow but
learn
as if you will live forever ( Mahatma Ghandhi quotation )
Midnight's
Children
Model
pupil
Never tell tales out of school
Night
Train
( Nickname of Dick Lane )
Object
lesson
Old school
Old school tie
Our
children
are not our
children
Play hookey
Road
train
School dunce
School for scandal
School of fish
School of hard knocks
School of thought
School's
out for summer
School's
out forever
Schooldays are the happiest days of your life
Schoolgirl crush
Second
class
Set in
train
Shovel ready ( a
building
project in which all the preliminaries have been arranged )
Show and tell
Soul
train
Strangers On A
Train
( Farley Granger / Alfred Hitchcock movie )
Suffer the little
children
Sunday school
Take The A
Train
( Duke Ellington tune )
Talk out of school
Teach someone a
lesson
Teacher's pet
Tell tales out of school
The Adventure of the Priory School ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of
Eton
The Big
Train
( Nickname of Walter Johnson )
The Bronx Zoo ( Nickname of Benjamin Harrison High School )
The Chrysler
Building
( tourist attraction in New York USA )
The Empire State
Building
( tourist attraction in New York USA )
The Famous Five ( characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book )
The blackboard jungle
The dog ate my
homework
The happiest days of your life
The light at the end of the tunnel may just be a
train
coming the other way
The wheels on the bus go round and round ( title of children's song )
This is the age of the
train
( British Rail advertising slogan )
Those who do not
learn
from history are doomed to repeat it
Train
crash
Train
of thought
Train
whistle blowing
Train
wreck
Trap and ball ( children's ball game )
Twas the night before Christmas - the
children
were dreaming of a Ford in their future - smart, swanky and gleaming ( Ford Cars advertising slogan )
Ukraine
Train
( Nickname of Vitaly Potapenko )
Up the
academy
Watch and
learn
We'll do the
homework
( Bendix Appliances advertising slogan )
We're with the Woolwich ( Woolwich
Building
Society advertising slogan )
What Katy Did At School
Women and
children
first
Working
Class
Hero ( John Lennon song )
Working
class
World
class
World class, worldwide ( Air Canada advertising slogan )
You are never too old to
learn
You could
learn
a lot from a dummy, Buckle Up ( National Highway Traffic Safety Administration advertising slogan )
Your starter for ten
( A catchphrase from
University
Challenge )