In School Quotes
Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.
We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.
Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.
My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.
I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate.
Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.
In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.
I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.
I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.
I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.
That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.
Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.
As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.
This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!
Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.
You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.
My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.
Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.
There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.
The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.
I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.
At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.
But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.
The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.
