School Quotes

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

Watching Jace hug Isabelle, she tried to school her features into a happy and loving expression. "Are you all right?" Simon asked, with some concern. "Your eyes are crossing.

Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing - but it works miracles.

Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood.

I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours.

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.

I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school.

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.

When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

The human heart is my school.

Even in high school, a rule that permits only one point of view to be expressed is less likely to produce correct answers than the open discussion of countervailing views.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

When you compare Christmas to Hanukkah, there's no comparison. Christmas is great. Hanukkah sucks! First night you get socks. Second night, an eraser, a notebook. It's a Back-to-School holiday!

A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.

Losing is a bad feeling. I've never been on an undefeated team throughout high school, so I tasted defeat before. I've been taught to handle it graciously.

I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn't matter to a certain segment of the populace.

The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.

I wasn't really sold on being an artist until high school, my senior year. I was going to do the college thing originally.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.

Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.

A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty.

(In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.

Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.

You can make your own son or daughter one of a kind if you have the time and will to do so; school can only make them part of a hive, herd or anthill.

For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.

It's not the school, the curriculum, or the teacher, but motivation that is the single most important ingredient in learning.

I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.

America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.

You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there's not an understanding of differences. But I built up a very strong, thick skin.

The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.