History Quotes / WizardingSchool

->Sing, o muse, of [[DayInTheLife student life]] at the Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy. Sing of mornings devoted to [[MagicalGesture warping fingers into hitherto unknown configurations]]. Sing of [[EatingLunchAlone terror-filled lunchtime seating arrangements]] - of tables diversely populated, such that the right to sit without asking is but fantasy. Sing o muse of the degree to which I do not want my college experience to suck absolute balls. Sing of [[GeniusSweetTooth sugar-crashed]] afternoons spent memorizing endless lists of magical facts and infinite tables of figures. Of evenings woven with longing and [[ShrinkingViolet untreated social anxiety]]. Of nights without sleep, waiting to face another day of disappointing myself and others. Sing, muse, of Alice's icy fear... which bore Alice out of her bed once more.

'''Dr. Christine Palmer:''' Oh, so you joined a cult.\\

-->-- ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}''

->Once, [[AcademyOfAdventure Eltisley Hall]] and [[WorldOfChaos the Maze]] had been two separate schools, [[OrderVsChaos representing two styles of magic that were at odds]], but now they were joined because magic had been united, at great cost. The passage between them was a sandy hedge-lined walkway that only opened at certain times. Patricia would send weeks mastering some [[HealingHands delicate healing art]] at Eltisely Hall, and then they would send her back to the Maze and she would be so confused and tangled up in herself that she forgot all her fancy skills. She would solve some nonsense puzzle at the Maze and figure out how to do some clever trick, [[HereWeGoAgain only to be sent back to Eltisley Hall]], where they'd drum endless rules into her again, and she would lose the twisty shape she'd been holding in her mind.

->Unseen University was much BiggerOnTheInside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging with places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, [[AlienGeometries turned out to contain the room you'd started with]], which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.\\
And because it was so big, it could afford to have an almost unlimited number of staff on the premises. Tenure was automatic, or more accurately, non-existant. You found an empty room, turned up for meals as usual, and generally no-one noticed, although if you were unfortunate you might attract students. And if you looked hard enough in some of the outlying regions of the University, you could find an expert on ''anything.''
-->-- ''Literature/TheLastContinent''

->Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy, Warty Hogwarts,\\

And learn until our brains all rot.

'''Quentin:''' So it's four years-\\

'''Quentin:''' A the end of which, I get what? A bachelor's of magic? I can't believe this is happening.\\

->You think: because I'm so very strong, I need fear nothing. They actually tell you that, in fourth year: once you've completed this part of the course you should never be afraid of anything ever again, because nothing will have the power to hurt you. It sounds marvelous, and you write home: Dear Mother and Father, this term we'll be doing absolute strength, when I see you next, I'll be [[NighInvulnerable invincible and invulnerable]], just fancy, your loving son, etc. We believe it, because it's so very plausible. Then you get field assignments and practicals, where you [[MindOverMatter levitate heavy objects]] and battle demons and divert the course of rivers and turn back the tides off the sea - heady stuff for a nineteen-year-old - and at the end of it you ''believe.'' I'm a graduate of the Studium, armed with ''strictoense'' and protected by ''lorica''; I shall fear no evil. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome And then they pack you off to your first posting, and you start the slow, humiliating business of learning something useful, the hard way]].
-->-- ''Return Of The Pig,'' by K.J. Parker

->Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies was established as a premiere girls' finishing school in 1790. During the Civil War, it was converted into a military hospital. Afterwards, it came under new management. ''Our'' management. In 1868, Marianne Wharton,a prominent East Coast society matron, early suffragette, author of several popular children's books - and, as it happened, the reigning [[TheArchmage Supreme]] of that time - purchased this facility, retaining the name as a cover, establishing a safe haven where young witches could gather to learn.
-->-- '''Cordelia Foxx,''' ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCoven''

->This school exists for a single and timeless purpose: to reveal your innate abilities and [[TrainingTheGiftOfMagic hone them to the highest degree]]. Now, what you do with it after that is entirely up to you. If you want to take over the world, [[SureLetsGoWithThat we don't teach that, but give it a go]].
-->-- '''Dean Fogg,''' ''{{Series/The Magicians|2016}}''

->For all you novice wizards thinking about magic training, seriously consider [[TheApprentice apprenticing.]] I know [[OurLichesAreDifferent liches]] who are still paying off their academy loans.

->On a cliff overlooking the dark waters of Lake Calenhad stands the [[MageTower tower fortress]] that is home to the Circle of Magi. This tower is the only place in Ferelden where mages may study their art among others of their kind; within the high stone walls, the Circle practices its magic and trains apprentices in the proper use of their powers. But the Circle Tower is as much a prison as a refuge: the ever-vigilant [[ChurchMilitant templars]] of the Chantry watch over all mages, constantly alert for any sign of [[DemonicPossession corruption]].

->Such a picturesque institution, such an integral part of the [[DarkAndTroubledPast short but intense history]] of [[TownWithADarkSecret Kingsmouth]]. It offers the town a boosted economy, attracts scholars, and bestows academic prestige. Only [[ChildProdigy gifted children]] are admitted, under very strict entry exams. Students rank at the highest aptitudes of natural science, history and archaeology. The academy is considered one of the premier prep schools in the United States.\\
[[{{Masquerade}} Public faces are so very pretty]]. [[{{Catchphrase}} Initiate]] the secret faces. [[BrokenMasquerade Gaze through the half-light.]]\\
Powerful wards lace the outer walls of the school. Chalk outlines form ritual shapes on the blackboard. The shelves are lined with [[TomeOfEldritchLore the sort of books]] that one might have been burnt at the stake for, only a few centuries ago. [[ChildMage The young]] doodle in notebooks, dreaming of bright futures in the secret cabals. Along with mundane curriculum, seasoned magi teach spellcraft, alchemy, and occultism. One faculty member is fond of his yearly demonstrations of [[{{Whatevermancy}} cephalonomancy]], the art of divination via [[{{Squick}} the boiled head of a donkey.]] Another scent haunts the halls.
-->-- '''The Buzzing,''' on Innsmouth Academy, ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

-->-- '''Dean Fogg,''' ''{{Series/TheMagicians|2016}}''

->''Unseen University was much BiggerOnTheInside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging with places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, [[AlienGeometries turned out to contain the room you'd started with]], which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.\\
And because it was so big, it could afford to have an almost unlimited number of staff on the premises. Tenure was automatic, or more accurately, non-existant. You found an empty room, turned up for meals as usual, and generally no-one noticed, although if you were unfortunate you might attract students. And if you looked hard enough in some of the outlying regions of the University, you could find an expert on ''anything.''''

->''Such a picturesque institution, such an integral part of the [[DarkAndTroubledPast short but intense history]] of [[TownWithADarkSecret Kingsmouth]]. It offers the town a boosted economy, attracts scholars, and bestows academic prestige. Only [[ChildProdigy gifted children]] are admitted, under very strict entry exams. Students rank at the highest aptitudes of natural science, history and archaeology. The academy is considered one of the premier prep schools in the United States.\\
[[{{Masquerade}} Public faces are so very pretty]]. [[{{Catchphrase}} Initiate]] the secret faces. [[BrokenMasquerade Gaze through the half-light.]]\\
Powerful wards lace the outer walls of the school. Chalk outlines form ritual shapes on the blackboard. The shelves are lined with [[TomeOfEldritchLore the sort of books]] that one might have been burnt at the stake for, only a few centuries ago. [[ChildMage The young]] doodle in notebooks, dreaming of bright futures in the secret cabals. Along with mundane curriculum, seasoned magi teach spellcraft, alchemy, and occultism. One faculty member is fond of his yearly demonstrations of [[{{Whatevermancy}} cephalonomancy]], the art of divination via [[{{Squick}} the boiled head of a donkey.]] Another scent haunts the halls.''
-->-- '''The Buzzing,''' on Innsmouth Academy, ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->''Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy, Warty Hogwarts,\\

And learn until our brains all rot.''
-->--'''School song of [[Literature/HarryPotter Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]]''', ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone''

->Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies was established as a premiere girls' finishing school in 1790. During the Civil War, it was converted into a military hospital. Afterwards, it came under new management. ''Our'' management. In 1868, Marianne Wharton,a prominent East Coast society matron, early suffragette, author of several popular children's books - and, as it happened, the reigning [[TheArchmage Supreme]] of that time - purchased this facility, retaining the name as a cover, establishing a safe haven where young witches could gather to learn.
-->--'''Cordelia Foxx,''' ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCoven''

-->--''Return Of The Pig,'' by K.J. Parker

->Once, [[AcademyOfAdventure Eltisley Hall]] and [[WorldOfChaos the Maze]] had been two separate schools, [[OrderVsChaos representing two styles of magic that were at odds]], but now they were joined because magic had been united, at great cost. The passage between them was a sandy hedge-lined walkway that only opened at certain times. Patricia would send weeks mastering some [[HealingHands delicate healing art]] at Eltisely Hall, and then they would send her back to the Maze and she would be so confused and tangled up in herself that she forgot all her fancy skills. She would solve some nonsense puzzle at the Maze and figure out how to do some clever trick, [[HereWeGoAgain only to be sent back to Eltisley Hall]], where they'd drum endless rules into her again, and she would lose the twisty shape she'd been holding in her mind.
-->--''Literature/AllTheBirdsInTheSky''

->'''Dean Fogg:''' You wouldn't put off college. You would abandon college. Brakebills would be your college. There would be no Ivy League for you. You wouldn't go off to school with the rest of your class. You would never make Phi Beta Kappa or be recruited by a hedge fund or a management consultancy. This isn't summer school, Quentin. This is the whole shebang.
->'''Quentin:''' So it's four years-
->'''Dean Fogg:''' Five, actually.
->'''Quentin:''' A the end of which, I get what? A bachelor's of magic? I can't believe this is happening.
->'''Dean Fogg:''' At the end of which you will be a [[OurMagesAreDifferent magician]], Quentin.
-->--''Literature/TheMagicians''

->'''Dr. Stephen Strange:''' I went to a place called [[TheShangriLa Kamar-Taj]] and I talked to someone called [[TheArchmage the Ancient One]], and...\\
'''Christine:''' Oh, so you joined a cult.\\
'''Dr. Stephen Strange:''' No, I didn’t. Not exactly. I mean, they ''did'' teach me to tap into powers that I never even knew existed-\\
'''Christine:''' Yeah, that sounds like a cult.\\
'''Dr. Stephen Strange:''' It’s ''not'' a cult.\\
'''Christine:''' [[TheGadfly Well, that’s what a cultist would say]].
-->--''Film/DoctorStrange2016''

-->--'''Dean Fogg,''' ''Series/TheMagicians2016''

->''On a cliff overlooking the dark waters of Lake Calenhad stands the [[MageTower tower fortress]] that is home to the Circle of Magi. This tower is the only place in Ferelden where mages may study their art among others of their kind; within the high stone walls, the Circle practices its magic and trains apprentices in the proper use of their powers. But the Circle Tower is as much a prison as a refuge: the ever-vigilant [[ChurchMilitant templars]] of the Chantry watch over all mages, constantly alert for any sign of [[DemonicPossession corruption]].''
-->--''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''

->Sing, o muse, of [[DayInTheLife student life]] at the Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy. Sing of mornings devoted to [[MagicalGesture warping fingers into hitherto unknown configurations]]. Sing of [[EatingLunchAlone terror-filled lunchtime seating arrangements]] - of tables diversely populated, such that the right to sit without asking is but fantasy. Sing o muse of the degree to which I do not want my college experience to suck absolute balls. Sing of [[GeniusSweetTooth sugar-crashed]] afternoons spent memorizing endless lists of magical facts and infinite tables of figures. Of evenings woven with longing and [[ShrinkingViolet untreated social anxiety]]. Of nights without sleep, waiting to face another day of disappointing myself and others. Sing, muse, of Alice's icy fear... which bore Alice out of her bed once more.
-->--''Literature/TheMagicians: [[ComicBookAdaptation Alice's Story]]''

->You think: because I'm so very strong, I need fear nothing. They actually tell you that, in fourth year: once you've completed this part of the course you should never be afraid of anything ever again, because nothing will have the power to hurt you. It sounds marvelous, and you write home: Dear Mother and Father, this term we'll be doing absolute strength, when I see you next, I'll be [[NighInvulnerable invincible and invulnerable]], just fancy, your loving son, etc. We believe it, because it's so very plausible. Then you get field assignments and practicals, where you [[MindOverMatter levitate heavy objects]] and battle demons and divert the course of rivers and turn back the tides off the sea - heady stuff for a nineteen-year-old - and at the end of it you ''believe.'' I'm a graduate of the Studium, armed with ''strictoense'' and protected by ''lorica''; I shall fear no evil. [[RealityEnsues And then they pack you off to your first posting, and you start the slow, humiliating business of learning something useful, the hard way]].

-->-- ''Discworld/TheLastContinent''

-->--'''Literature/TheMagicians: [[ComicBookAdaptation Alice's Story]]''

->'''Dean Fogg:''' At the end of which you will be a [[OurMagesAreDifferently magician]], Quentin.

-->-- '''The Buzzing, on Innsmouth Academy, ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->Once, [[AcademyOfAdventue Eltisley Hall]] and [[WorldOfChaos the Maze]] had been two separate schools, [[OrderVsChaos representing two styles of magic that were at odds]], but now they were joined because magic had been united, at great cost. The passage between them was a sandy hedge-lined walkway that only opened at certain times. Patricia would send weeks mastering some [[HealingHands delicate healing art]] at Eltisely Hall, and then they would send her back to the Maze and she would be so confused and tangled up in herself that she forgot all her fancy skills. She would solve some nonsense puzzle at the Maze and figure out how to do some clever trick, [[HereWeGoAgain only to be sent back to Eltisley Hall]], where they'd drum endless rules into her again, and she would lose the twisty shape she'd been holding in her mind.

[[{{Masquerade}} Public faces are so very pretty]]. [[ArcWords Initiate]] the secret faces. [[BrokenMasquerade Gaze through the half-light.]]\\

-->-- Lore entry on '''Innsmouth Academy''', ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies was established as a premiere girls' finishing school in 1790. During the Civil War, it was converted into a military hospital. Afterwards, it came under new management. ''Our'' management. In 1868, Marianne Wharton,a prominent East Coast society matron,early suffragette, author of several popular children's books - and, as it happened, the reigning [[TheArchmage Supreme]] of that time - purchased this facility, retaining the name as a cover, establishing a safe haven where young witches could gather to learn.

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[[TheMasquerade Public faces are so very pretty]]. [[ArcWords Initiate]] the secret faces. [[BrokenMasquerade Gaze through the half-light.]]\\

->''Unseen University was much BiggerOnTheInside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging with places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.\\

-> Unseen University was much BiggerOnTheInside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging with places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.

-> And because it was so big, it could afford to have an almost unlimited number of staff on the premises. Tenure was automatic, or more accurately, non-existant. You found an empty room, turned up for meals as usual, and generally no-one noticed, although if you were unfortunate you might attract students. And if you looked hard enough in some of the outlying regions of the University, you could find an expert on ''anything.''
-->-- '''[[Literature/{{Discworld}} The Last Continent]]'''

-> Such a picturesque institution, such an integral part of the [[DarkAndTroubledPast short but intense history]] of [[TownWithADarkSecret Kingsmouth]]. It offers the town a boosted economy, attracts scholars, and bestows academic prestige. Only [[ChildProdigy gifted children]] are admitted, under very strict entry exams. Students rank at the highest aptitudes of natural science, history and archaeology. The academy is considered one of the premier prep schools in the United States.

-> [[TheMasquerade Public faces are so very pretty]]. [[ArcWords Initiate]] the secret faces. [[BrokenMasquerade Gaze through the half-light.]]

-> Powerful wards lace the outer walls of the school. Chalk outlines form ritual shapes on the blackboard. The shelves are lined with [[TomeOfEldritchLore the sort of books]] that one might have been burnt at the stake for, only a few centuries ago. [[ChildMage The young]] doodle in notebooks, dreaming of bright futures in the secret cabals. Along with mundane curriculum, seasoned magi teach spellcraft, alchemy, and occultism. One faculty member is fond of his yearly demonstrations of [[{{Whatevermancy}} cephalonomancy]], the art of divination via [[{{Squick}} the boiled head of a donkey.]] Another scent haunts the halls.

-> Unseen University was much [[BiggerOnTheInside bigger on the inside]]. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging with places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.

-->-- '''[[{{Discworld}} The Last Continent]]'''

-->-- Lore entry on '''Innsmouth Academy''', ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

-> Many things went on at Unseen University and, regrettably, teaching had to be one of them. The faculty had long ago confronted this fact and had perfected various devices for avoiding it. But this was perfectly all right because, to be fair, so had the students.

-> The system worked quite well and, as happens in such cases, had taken on the status of a tradition, Lectures clearly took place, because they were down there on the timetable in black and white. The fact that no-one attended was an irrelevant detail. It was occasionally maintained that this meant that the lectures did not in fact happen at all, but no-one ever attended them to find out if this was true. Anyway, it was argued (by the Reader in Woolly Thinking) that lectures had taken place in essence, so that was all right, too.

-> And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.
-->-- '''[[{{Discworld}} Interesting Times]]'''

-> Public faces are so very pretty. [[ArcWords Initiate]] the secret faces. Gaze through the half-light.

-> Such a picturesque institution, such an integral part of the [[DarkAndTroubledPast short but intense history]] of [{TownWithADarkSecret Kingsmouth]]. It offers the town a boosted economy, attracts scholars, and bestows academic prestige. Only [[ChildProdigy gifted children]] are admitted, under very strict entry exams. Students rank at the highest aptitudes of natural science, history and archaeology. The academy is considered one of the premier prep schools in the United States.