School Quotes

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the political interests committed to our charge.

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.

It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.

Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.

Imagine if your kids had to carry a ladder to climb an apartheid wall to get to school everyday.

I'm Joe Canada, who never went to high school. I've never even been to a football game.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'

I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.

I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do.

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.

I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.

My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.

My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.

What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.

I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.

I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

One fact we're particularly proud of is that there are more people learning languages on Duolingo in the US than there are people learning languages in the entire US public school system.

In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.

I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.