In School Quotes

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

The propaganda machine is endless. Religion, media and schools spew intentional lies and misinformation about proper human-to-animal relationships.

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.

School's a weird thing. I'm not sure it works.

In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.

It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.

Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school.

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

I had to make a living. I had the mortgage to pay, I had the school fees to pay. I had bread and butter to put on the table. You know your worth as an actor, but you have to get a job.

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

My mom told me as a youngster I was always intellectual, like as far as being able to adapt fast and quick. But I had a fun childhood, went to regular school.

Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.

I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later.

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.

School is a good place - it ain't for everybody, but I think it's for most people.

It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

I do not dislike teaching when the boys behave themselves.

If there is hell, it was modeled after junior high school.

An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.

Since the Court took God our of our schools, we've gotten exactly what we should expect: godless schools.

It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny.

Eventually I went back to high school. I went to a coaching center in my neighborhood. I had to leave the homeless situation because it was so bad and I knew that I was falling deeper and deeper.

Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be.

As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child.

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'

If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

Because students leave school without financial skills, millions of educated people pursue their profession successfully, but later find themselves, struggling financially.

You get an education in school and in college. And then you start to work. and that's when you learn!

When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.

At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong.

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause these humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned.

When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

I promised to finish school, so I'll figure it out I guess. Besides, I'm on a special school for musicians and artists, so I'm not the only one with this life style.

I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.