Quotes About Schools

We've got to look to our educational programs and focus on doing what we can to stem violence in the schools.

critical thinking and decision-making skills, which could counteract our natural tendencies to err, are typically not taught in our schools.

Our culture and our schools and our government, backlashers insist, are controlled by an overeducated ruling class that is contemptuous of the beliefs and practices of the masses of ordinary people. Those who run America, the theory holds, are despicable, self-important show-offs. They are effete, to use a favorite backlash term. They are arrogant.2They are snobs. They are liberals.

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

for though it be a maxim in the schools that there is no Love of a thing unknown, yet I have found that things unknown have a secret influence on the soul,

Faith founded schools; it is not dependent on them. A high authority has told us that we are more likely to find faith in an old woman on her knees scrubbing the floors of a public building than in a bishop on his throne.

Debaixo e atrás do véu das doutrinas dos diversos cultos e escolas, acha-se ainda constantemente o princípio da Substância Mental do Universo. Se o Universo é mental na sua natureza substancial, segue-se que a Transmutação Mental pode mudar as condições e os fenômenos do Universo. Se o Universo é mental, a Mente será o poder mais elevado que produz os seus fenômenos.

Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.

God gave us grace on November 8, 2016, to change the course we were on. God had been taken out of our schools and lives, a nation had turned its back on God.

I get lobbied by governments, schools, nurses, charities. It's not all a bad thing.

The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both disciplines is the construction of objects in a landscape.

Obviously when you come into competition with other schools and you become aware of anything that concerns you, you have an obligation to say something.

Well, the difference between 10th Planet and most other jiu jitsu schools is the obvious thing... we train exclusively no-gi.

A city's intellect ought to be measured not by its scholars, libraries, miniaturists, calligraphers and schools, but by the number of crimes insidiously committed on its dark streets over thousands of years.

limestone lies about the eroded land like schools of sunning dolphin, gray channeled backs humped at the infernal sky.

It is the public schools, however, which can be made, outside the homes, the greatest means of training decent self-respecting citizens.

The difference between great philosophers who disagree is perhaps less considerable than that which separates them from their followers. Members of philosophic schools or coteries live on what others have seen, and the disciple usually applies his master's insights with a confidence which, most of the time, the master lacked.

What's at stake in current sex and gender-identity struggles is not just the ability of Catholic ministries and schools to serve unhampered in the public square. The freedom of Catholic families to raise their children according to Christian beliefs is also, in everyday practice, becoming more difficult.

Religion--invaluable in America's founding, forming and flowering--deserves a place in the schools. Indeed, it had that place for almost 200 years. A healthy country would teach its children evolution--and the Ten Commandments.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

Schools, by definition, come with a couple hundred potential hostages and you didn't want kids shot because you rushed it. Of course the drills presumed that the mad gunman was another kid. Kids are unpredictable. Kids with guns are extremely unpredictable. And no one wanted to have to shoot a kid, even one with a gun. So, secure, assess, wait.

In schools they have what they call intelligence tests. Well if nations held 'em I don't believe we would be what you would call a favorite to win it.

In the years immediately following the end of the Great War, approximately fifty thousand one-room schools were replaced with these "fine upstanding structures—schools that in every way compare[d] with big-city institutions." By 1922, there were roughly "12,000 of this new type of school in the United States." Indiana alone had more than one thousand; Ohio, Iowa, and Minnesota more than nine hundred, four hundred, and three hundred, respectively.6

Design has killed architecture. Design is what they teach in the schools.