School Quotes

It is wrong to say that schoolmasters lack heart and are dried-up, soulless pedants! No, by no means...

Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stag...

I was not a good scholar, and during my last year at school I made little effort. This was not due t...

Looking back, I realise it wasn't only gym I dreaded at school. Every class was a torment. It wasn't...

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obe...

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a c...

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said...

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patie...

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

Schools themselves pervert the natural inclination to grow and learn into the demand for instruction...

Institutional wisdom tells us that children need school. Institutional wisdom tells us that children...

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salva...

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy ...

I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your first move will be to apply yourse...

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.

Don't forget to give Neville our love!' Ginny told James as she hugge

Don't forget to give Neville our love!' Ginny told James as she hugged him.!' Neville-'James rolled ...

I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if yo...

A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabular...

I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's wo...

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have ...

Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in...

His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivided and squalid way of life. Hi...

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is...

Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early...

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was...

It wasn't until sixth grade, at P.S. 168, when my teacher took us on a field trip to her house that ...

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of d...

Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment ...

'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder ...

It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, goi...

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, w...

It's not our job to choose the best Sunday school teacher, like Jimmy Carter was. It's our job to ch...

As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly al...

I think family mealtime is really important. There's a lot of research that shows kids are going to ...

In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced Engl...

While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help...

I am a cuddly atheist... I am against creationism being taught in schools because there is empirical...

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, ...

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of ou...

This school is enough to make anyone a communist.

Stupid English.""English isn't stupid," I say."Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. F...

I think if you cheat in a ethics class then there's really no hope for you.

I think if you cheat in a ethics class then there's really no hope for you.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everyt

You go on, I presume, with your latin Exercises: and I wish to hear of your beginning upon Sallust w...

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must...

I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself throu...

I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest po...

Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there.

I couldn’t help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the...

I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased...

I spent the next three hours in classrooms, trying not to look at the clocks over various blackboard...

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. ...

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it...

In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt that the De...

Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I p...

I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years...

I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years...

From elementary school through high school, my siblings and I were hectored to excel in every class,...

I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adoles...

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went ...

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I h...

I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes a...

I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and d...

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sk...

I'm like every waitress in every diner I'm like every mom driving her kids to school. I'm nothing sp...

The mistake that many policymakers make is to believe that in education the best way to face the fut...

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was...

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in sch...

Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophica...

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But eve...

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the countr...

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care a...

I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever ...

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the o...

For a time in high school, I had glasses, braces, and a cast. I like to call this look 'no date for ...

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fant...

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Adverti...

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What ...

I did imitations of anyone who came to my parents' house, and that was my identity at school - if th...

As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. ...

When we were little," the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little no...

I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish,...

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they c...

My first job in TV was hosting this young teen magazine show, and all these high school teenagers sh...

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superi...

We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, ...

I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as lon...

When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I ...

When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I ...

When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I ...

When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I ...

Dana raised her hand. "I learned about exaggeration," she said. "It was all my teacher ever talked a...

The medium of response in America is fame; that's how a person that bounces a ball can make millions...

Yet that is considered an excellent school, and I dare say it would be if the benighted lady did not...

I was an elementary school teacher.

In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You h...

I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would le...