Quotes About Schools

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and approachable.

While vast sums of money are being siphoned off into hidden [military] coffers, Americas schools, hospitals and public services are facing cutbacks and closures.

How can we begin to move schools to become places of more relevant, connected, creative learning? Even with a plan, it won't be easy.

Before we can have a coherent conversation around what happens to schools, we need to get educated. We need to learn about modern, connected learning. And we've got to try to get others to do that work with us.

The questions they ask usually in the polls is: do you support the President's attempt to overthrow the government of Saddam Hussein? ... If you ask a question like: do you support the dropping of powerful explosives upon the heads of totally innocent men, women and children, demolishing their homes and their schools and their hospitals, are you in favour of that? That would change the answers, I think, quite a bit.

Questions, Hypothetical: Needn't be answered. No one knows why. Schools, Public: They teach you to stand on your own two feet. 'No doors on the lavatories. That sorts the men from the boys'. Snobbery, Inverted: The worst kind. No need to explain why.

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

But despite the ferocity and technical sophistication of the Muslim navies, they would ultimately prove no match for the alumni of the rough schools of the Hellespont, the Kattegat, Gibraltar, and the Channel.

evidence that suggests private schools, on average, do not offer students a competitive edge in academic performance over their peers in public schools,

While those of us in schools may wish to blame others for imposing constraints, many of our constraints are self imposed. Are we able to escape from these and respond to what we believe is best for our students? One

We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America.

We may be unable to maintain even a semblance of order in our urban schools, which increasingly resemble happy hour in Beirut. But, hallelujah, we sure know how to protect kids from God.

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.

In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.

Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.

I went to good schools, and I've just always had an allergic reaction to snobbishness - always found myself preferring to blend into the woodwork. I have an affinity to those who, in a sense, failed.

Get out of our schools God, get out of our textbooks God, get out of our government God, go away God, go away God, go away God, Katrina hits, God, where are you?

The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.

Keep government out of the money of the people, schools of the people, and will of the people.

Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.

Government-run schools can't instill morals and character.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

All this green stuff is great, it's great we don't have plastic bottles or plastic bags and all of that, but how about some great schools?