School Quotes

"Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons"

"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall"

"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

"Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

"I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"I had 10 to 12 close buddies who I played ball with all the way from elementary to high school. That is where I learned to compete"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"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

"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"School is a foretaste of life"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they want to go to school, marry whoever they want to marry regardless of what their complexion is and so forth"

Ed Smith

"After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

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

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

"All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'"

Abe Lemons, Coach

"The home is the chief school of human virtues"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor"

Abe Lemons, Coach

"No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him"

Herbert Hoover, President

"Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence"

Joe Baca, Politician

"Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives"

Joe Baca, Politician

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