In School Quotes
Like a brain surgeon who drinks a martini when he's not on call, the successful kids in your school may smoke pot on occasion, but they are not stoners.
I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.
There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids.
I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.
Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.
The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.
Rock stars are idiots. You know that! Remember this moron never went to music school, never learned music theory and can't read or write music. So why not be suspicious of everything this idiot says?
Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.
I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.
Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise - competition.
One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.
Too bad brooms can't really fly. Now if you miss the bus you can't just go in your room and fly to school with a nimbus two thousand!
We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work —and by that I mean armed security.
My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.
We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.
The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life.
If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.
If you see a kid in school, who is a little shy ... that's when you should reach out. When you do, you are going to open up a flower and discover something wonderful.
I remember in the old days, when we were promoting a show, we'd be out taping flyers to high-school lockers. Now you just announce the show online, and it's a full house.
The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.
Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.
I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
My parents tried so hard to do what they could to keep us in school, but school didn't last but four months out of the year and most of the time we didn't have clothes to wear.
If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.
I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.
My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.
If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?
The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible.
When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip.
Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation.
I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-school parties.
It's funny because I went to a predominantly white school, but for some reason they always picked the musicals that were supposed to be done by totally black casts.
It feels great to not be the acne-ridden outsider that I felt like when I was in high school. It's a lot more fun being alive now than it was then, I'll say that much.
I'm seeing too many kind of socially awkward kids that get through schools and then they can't hold a job because they haven't learned the discipline of get up in the morning.
You don't have to necessarily go down the drama school route, or have connections in the industry. You can just make it.
Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.