Quotes About Schools

Someone told me about drama schools, and they seemed like mythological places - you can really go and be in drama classes all day? I inadvertently entered into this world where people wore bicycle clips and did song-and-dance routines in the corridors.

Keeping lice out of schools should be a herd immunity type of attitude. Schools should send home brochures with a plastic comb attached in an envelope.

Mentorship plays such an important role in business - we know it's a must - and I believe schools should embrace it in a much fuller way.

Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls all had to change schools.

I always coached mostly the have-not schools.

I care about dental care, and ending mass private and public surveillance, and funding schools so they can have small class sizes.

My mother always wanted me to be in the best environment that I could be in. She wanted me to go to the best schools. Every now and again she'd save up enough for us to get a nice apartment in downtown Chicago, but we were never able to sustain it.

Private schools cannot be the answer to nation's needs. Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway are leading examples where government schools are world acclaimed.

Growing up in Sweden, musical education is something really special. There are music schools everywhere, and the education is very advanced.

There is a systemic problem in this country, where schools are often forcing parents to turn to Ritalin.

School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.

Education has long been viewed in American society as "the great equalizer." But in practice, American schools are highly segregated by race and socioeconomic status, which defeats the equality goal. Research dating back five decades shows one of the most powerful ways to improve the life chances of disadvantaged students is giving them the opportunity to attend high-quality schools that educate rich and poor students under a single roof.135

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

Then let enterprising individuals pay rental to the mob," said Mr. Gruffydd, "and the mob will be that much better off. It is money that enables men to come from the mob by education, and the purchase of books, and schools. When the mob is properly schooled, it will be a less a mob and more of a body of respectable, self-disciplined, and self-creative citizens.

Unless the health authorities say schools have to shut down, I don't see why we should keep her home. She's not sick.

During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they move through the green depths of the canopy, like schools of fish.

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools, too?

I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible.

I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.

A perfect example of the power of prayer is when a blizzard closes the schools on the day of a big exam.

If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

The other schools get along with this as a performance art, as a method of making a living, as a colorful decoration, or as a means of forcing flowers to bloom. Yet, can it be the True Way if it has been made into a saleable item?

schools and churches, and that means fixing the inner cities, and that's impossible unless we fix crime. There's no fulcrum on which to rest a policy lever. People of all ages sense that something huge will have to sweep across America before the gloom can be lifted—but that's an awareness we suppress. As a nation, we're in deep denial.