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Quotes About Schools

Very well. I'm confident Papa told you about our missed connection aboard the Grimm vessel." "What's a vessel?" Daphne asked. "The layman calls it a boat," Pinocchio explained. "What's a layman?" Daphne asked. "Oh dear. The schools in this town are failing the youth," Pinocchio said.
~ Michael Buckley
The Catholic Church built and ran hospitals, schools, and centres for the poor and unemployed generations before the secular state became involved, and even today a visit to almost any main street in the Western world or to a village or town in the developing world will show Catholic charities and outreach organizations operating in what are often the most challenging of conditions.
~ Unknown
This was suburban Surrey, the land of the A and B social classes in the terminology of pollsters, where passports lay at the ready and Range Rovers stood in the driveway. Range Rovers? The only time they ever encountered mud was when being driven carelessly over front lawns late on a Friday night or when dropping off their little Johnnies and Emmas at their private schools.
~ Michael Dobbs
What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
~ Michael Gove
It's bad enough that most medical schools don't even require a single course on nutrition,58 but it's even worse when mainstream medical organizations actively lobby against increased nutrition education for physicians.59
~ Michael Greger
eight other states already have what are known as "no promo homo" laws, which, like the original "don't say gay" bill, restrict to varying degrees what educators can say about homosexuality.
~ Unknown
Because the first thing that will occur, once the legalization occurs, is that if this curriculum is not being taught already, it will be mandated, it must be taught in the schools. You cannot get out of it. Why? If you would not teach this, it would be considered discriminatory.
~ Michele Bachmann
Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.
~ Mitt Romney
Medical science in the West began with the import of Greek and Arabic texts, especially the works of Galen and Avicenna, in the eleventh century. Salerno in Italy established the first medical school. It seems to have been astonishingly enlightened. After Salerno, medical schools were organized at Bologna, Montpellier, and elsewhere.
~ Unknown
Probe should be started against the media that has reported about rising Covid cases in schools to dig out its actual source of funding the program and the culprit behind it.
~ Unknown
These scoundrel media are also spreading lies that schools have got Covid cases. Where this corone goes away when politicians rallies are taken out with no masks and even in pilgrimages where lakhs of people are assembling everyday.
~ Unknown
L'endoctrinement de la jeunesse dans les écoles était l'un des principaux piliers de ces États esclavagistes. En vérité, la principale différence entre les horreurs du XXème siècle et les despotismes plus anciens est que ces tyrannies modernes ont dû reposer sur un soutien des masses plus direct, et que par conséquent l'alphabétisation obligatoire et l'endoctrinement ont joué un rôle crucial.
~ Murray N. Rothbard
Education is the result of self-learning, being taught by one or more people. Learning is the key word here. Schools, colleges and universities only divide you into CLASSES according to your level of understanding.
~ Unknown
One editorial summed up a general feeling: pupils were going to mourn the loss of this "natural" education that "made the world a wonderful place" and a return to schools bound by rules and "copy-book maxims." Still, parents were warned that they could be prosecuted if they did not remove their children from Victoria and Zula's school and return them to a school holding the required Certificate of Efficiency.
~ Unknown
Our local communities, once vibrantly self-governing, have lost vital autonomy, as the Court has hemmed in their ability to police themselves and regulate their schools, all in the name of atoning for America's original sin of slavery but in fact harming black Americans more than helping them.
~ Myron Magnet
We don't know how long his family had lived in Tarsus. Later legends suggest various options, one of which is that his father or grandfather had lived in Palestine but had moved during one of the periodic social and political upheavals, which, in that world, always carried "religious" overtones as well. What we do know about them is that they belonged to the strictest of the Jewish schools. They were Pharisees.
~ Unknown
In Britain, some public schools now teach paganism in their religious education courses, including "witchcraft, druidism and the worship of ancient gods such as Thor.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Even if a group of children were put "on an island and they raised themselves," Barrett adds, "I think they would believe in God." 13 It appears that we have to be educated out of the knowledge of God by secular schools and media.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Without meaning, learning has no purpose. Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention.
~ Neil Postman
Without a narrative, life has no meaning. Without meaning, learning has no purpose. Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention.
~ Neil Postman
From public schools shall general knowledge flow, For 'tis the people's sacred right to know.
~ Neil Postman
Thomas Jefferson. . . knew what schools were for--to ensure that citizens would know when and how to protect their liberty. . . It would not have come easily to the mind of such a man, as it does to political leaders today, that the young should be taught to read exclusively for the purpose of increasing their economic productivity.
~ Neil Postman
Closing the schools can harm children who are neglected or unsafe at home and who benefit from the caring eyes of a teacher.
~ Nicholas A. Christakis
In the United States, we rely on local property taxes to fund public schools, so rich suburbs enjoy first-rate public schools that are a pipeline to the best universities, and underprivileged children suffer in third-rate schools with, often, the worst teachers.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof