School Quotes

From an evolutionary standpoint you can't just wipe everything out and start over, and I don't think you can do it in the school system either.

That's what I like about you, senator, you're kicking it old-school.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

Much of modern liberalism consists of people trying to get revenge on the football players they felt inferior to in school.

And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Every day is a school day. I learn something new every day, and I never know what's going to happen next.

Accusing a home school kid of missing out on ‘socialization’ is like accusing a work-at-home entrepreneur of missing out on corporate politics.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

A modern school where football is taught.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

I think there is a special bond between Carolina athletes. A lot of people seem to wear our gear because it is fashionable. They love the colors. It's Michael Jordan's school!

I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .

I loved getting classical training in terms of acting. I would've stayed in acting school for the rest of my life if I could have. It was this amazing period of my life where everything was so safe.

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

Do you know how to pick a lock?" "Not in the least, I'm afraid." "I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey.

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.

Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library.

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.

I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.

I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.

People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.

In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.

Time is the school in which we learn.

Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.