School Quotes

School Quote of the day

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

Aim for the stars. You will sooner reach the moon.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.

Play it cool, that's the old school rule man.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

You don't have to be angry, you don't have to be too cool for school. You can just have a good time and dance like no one's watching. Just enjoy life.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

I've got a kid in Africa that I feed, that I clothe, that I school, that I inoculate for 75 cents a day. Which is practically nothing compared to what it cost to send him there.

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.

You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

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

The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.

Cleanliness & good sanitation in schools is a matter of high importance.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

I learned in school that money isn’t everything. It’s happiness that counts. So momma sent me to a different school.

We live in a society where we wake up our kids for school but not Fajr.

I was never able to have three of four beers. One's too many, and ten just ain't enough. Basically it's the way I've been since high school.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

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

College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

I was extremely unpopular at school. Once the hardest kid in school beat me up and there was a plan for about 30 other kids to kick me in the face once I was down. Good times!

When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul.

Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

I don't wear the see-through shirts or anything too glittery. I come from that '90s school of rap. Fitted caps, because I got a big head, so snapbacks don't fit me right.

Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

Every child should be taught to cook in school, not just talk about nutrition all day. Good food can be made in 15 minutes. This could be the first generation where the kids teach the parents.