School Quotes

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get o...

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

Every boy learns more in his hours of play than in his hours of labor. In school, he lays in the mat...

I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. S...

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and se...

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but...

It starts innocently. Casually. You turn up at the annual spring fair full of beans, help with the r...

I went to Northwestern because I had gone to a really nontraditional high school. I was like, 'It'd ...

Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous...

It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got...

My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf...

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next...

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this t...

It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two years...

My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made mor...

My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath ...

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must chec...

The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.

I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the d...

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. Th...

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers...

Many of our elected officials have virtually handed the keys to our schools over to corporate intere...

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.

I wanted to capture what language ability tests could never reveal: her intent, her passion, her ima...

Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Ge...

I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, t...

You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life....

I never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn't run around with ...

I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home -...

Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern i...

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their hig...

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report wri...

The human heart is my school.

'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be succ...

Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed t...

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from ...

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing abo...

Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not su...

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm woul...

We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we hav...

To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs ...

High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organ...

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abus...

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade...

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life ...

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circ...

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstei...

As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a tes...

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.

Susie: Hi Calvin! Aren't you excited about going to school? Look at all these great school supplies ...

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice...

People think of poetry as a school subject... Poetry is very frustrating to students because they do...

Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the ra...

I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42....

I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I...

Well we're waiting here in Allentown,For the Pennsylvania we never found,For the promises our teache...

In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say...

Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, ...

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinn...

I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in way...

One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type ...

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system...

No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely th...

School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their prioriti...

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary s...

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to expe...

The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Tail.' I was a...

I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, so...

The primary school I attended in Shanghai was a very liberal one, established by scholars who had re...

I don't believe in school prayer. I think it's total nonsense...who is the teacher there that is goi...

I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of re...

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.

Can you imagine peaking as a teen? I think if you peak in high school, there's a problem. That's wha...

Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.

What grinds me the most is we're sending kids out into the world who don't know how to balance a che...

I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you ...

I wasn't good in school. I didn't do sports. I sat in the bedroom and listened to records. Because t...

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about th...

My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow ...

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He h...

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way ...

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, i...

I had a Spanish teacher in high school. I rarely got in trouble in her room because I felt I was dis...

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to ...

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their ha...

You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in ...

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous....

I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with an...