School Quotes
Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.
When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.
But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.
Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.
Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book ?
Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.
I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.
When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.
My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.
I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.
I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.
Look, we ought to do this for our kids... We ought to have a high school so that every kid who grows up here - they're all our kids - gets a good high school education.
A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.
I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.
Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school.
Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.
Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.
I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.
I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.
The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.
Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.
If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.
I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.
I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.
In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?
In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.
Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school.
In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.
I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year.
I’ve met kids who haven’t had the best of parents but because they had something in them, or they had somebody at school help develop them, they turned out fine.
We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, now we're having weekly shootings practically.
Our public schools need to be in the control of parents and the community, as opposed to businessmen who see the $23 billion budget as a means to giving no-bid contracts to their cronies.
But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.
I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.