School Quotes

The idea of becoming an entrepreneur is something that is not taught very well in school and is something that people should try to do earlier on.

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

Our schools are filled with this potential energy, and we need to create an environment for that energy to manifest itself.

Schools often box kids into predefined categories. But we don't know what amazing ideas, inventions, cures, and contributions all these youths really have.

I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people.

For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow. For a moderately autistic kid the best prognosis is full recovery.

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.

I was not popular. I was the kid in school that was bullied.

I've only been acting since 2009 and I learn more and more with each job. I think I prepare and I'm very focused and I have a good work ethic that I learned in school.

I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if they had no ideal.

I took the LSAT the day 'Jersey Shore' premiered, and after that I was too busy to go to law school.

When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

There is too much repression and suppression in schools.

In 15 years from now half of US universities may be in bankruptcy ... in the end I'm excited to see that happen. So pray for Harvard Business School if you wouldn't mind.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one

I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.

If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales.

There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.

In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making.

I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.

Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.

A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.

Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?

I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.

When school friends would think about appearing on stage as the most frightening, the most awful, intimidating experience ever, I knew that it was something I could do.

My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and so. And the legacy of the Kerouac school.

Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.

All too many churchmen view the undisciplined & amoral products of statist education as evidences of the failure of these schools. On the contrary, they are evidences of their success.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.

You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.

Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.

Don't just dream it. Be it!

Back in high school I told my dad, "I'm going to have a computer someday." And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house. And I said, "Well, I'll live in an apartment."

It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school.