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Quotes About School

The normal school should provide for the training of the educator to make him realize that his is a twofold job: education as a teacher and education as a propagandist.
~ Edward Bernays
The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten.
~ Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.
~ Neal Shusterman
When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
~ Mark Twain
This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.
~ Sivananda
What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority.
~ Doug Stanhope
I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.
~ Barbara Park
When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my kid for one day!"
~ Milton Berle
One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.
~ Andy Hargreaves
Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement.
~ James Heckman
Ive been wearing lipstick since I was in 7th grade. That was our form of daring self-expression, because we had to wear uniforms in school. It made our teachers so angry.
~ Kourtney Kardashian
My history teacher was so old, he taught from memory.
~ Henny Youngman
'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.
~ Terry Pratchett
I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.
~ Janis Ian
I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.
~ Richard Brautigan
No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell
~ Alice Cooper
Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training
~ Charles Handy
I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.
~ Jayma Mays
I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.
~ Keisha Castle-Hughes
I've always wanted to play a teacher.
~ Michael Rooker
When I was at school I got lines for dropping a big squelchy, loud fart. My teacher, who was a priest, made me write 'I must not fart in class' 100 times. I left that school shortly afterwards.
~ Brian McFadden
I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.
~ Nicole Anderson
The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.
~ Andy Warhol
Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.
~ Stevie Wonder