School Quotes: Inspiring and Thought-Provoking Words on Education

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

Lillian Smith, Novelist

"Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us"

Joseph Priestley, Scientist

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison"

Victor Hugo, Author

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"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"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen"

Michael Hutchence, Musician

"The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth"

Martin Luther, Professor

"I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

"I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told"

Bennie Thompson, Politician

"Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that"

Ad Reinhardt, Artist

"I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22"

Daniel J. Evans, Politician

"I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats"

Joe Davis, Celebrity

"I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers"

Lance Burton, Entertainer

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards"

Mark Twain, Author

"One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success"

Ashley Montagu, Scientist

"When schools flourish, all flourishes"

Martin Luther, Professor

"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait"

A. Whitney Brown, Comedian

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off"

Roger McGough, Poet

"Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize"

James Joyce, Novelist

"Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary"

Dora Russell, Celebrity

"Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation"

Dora Russell, Celebrity

"A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School"

Gene Wolfe, Writer

"If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed"

Gilbert Hernandez, Artist

"It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal"

Gilbert Hernandez, Artist

"Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls"

Chris Brown, Musician

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