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

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

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

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

Victor Hugo, Author

"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

"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

"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

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

Mark Twain, Author

"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

"Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn"

Delmore Schwartz, Poet

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"When schools flourish, all flourishes"

Martin Luther, Professor

"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

"When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children"

Albert Shanker, Educator

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"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

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

Virginia Woolf, Author

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"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 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

"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'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

"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

"I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself"

Robert Bork, Public Servant

"A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"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

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

James Joyce, Novelist

"Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

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

A. Whitney Brown, Comedian

"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

"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"Experience is a good school. But the fees are high"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

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

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus"

Kanye West, Musician

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