Quotes About School

I couldn't identify with anyone. At school, I was considered very strange. I didn't understand the relationships between people.

I knew that I was smart enough to learn. I knew that I could learn, if I could just go to school and not hear gunshots.

At art school you realize that in order to stay engaged you have to ignore the critics, good and bad.

I grew up in Illinois, went out east to school, and went back to Illinois to teach... Illinois is a great state for ethics.

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

When you're in elementary school, you get these amazing assignments, like to come up with your own animal, come up with your own city, come up with your own planet, what do the people look like; you're very much encouraged to be as imaginative as possible.

As a young black immigrant at an inner-city school, I saw how poverty of ambition left many from disadvantaged backgrounds on the scrap-heap.

I went to a predominantly African-American school. I didn't even understand our immigration system. I knew my parents immigrated here.

I think it's imperative to keep your focus on why you're in school. You're in school to get an education.

Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.

Every film you see in film school takes on a heightened importance in your life.

My father was an important person, the director of the school. He could talk to anybody - simple or educated. He liked chess, fishing, and beautiful women.

And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does.

Hey, the Clippers are a good NBA basketball school. Helps out all the young guys who come into the league. It's not a fast team, not like a real NBA team. All the players have to worry about is improving on their own. You are there for your first few years. They teach you a little bit about the game, and then they let you go.

I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.

I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist.

I went to a state school in south-west London. It was a brilliant school for the students that really wanted to learn. But it was not a great school for the students that - in my opinion - didn't want to learn, i.e. me. I really wasn't interested by it.

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

During my years in school, I did try to audition for and partake in school plays. Reason being I was not very inclined towards more physically challenging activities like sports.

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

One teacher, Susan Atkins evoked the experience of many of her colleagues when she said, "It's not just one classroom. It's every class. There's a core and you never know what they're going to throw at you, and the other kids watch, wondering if the 'core' is going to come after them.

A school's version of fun can never compete with the street's version of fun.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

Historians of the sentimental school have sometimes regretted that royalty became absolute, while at the same time rejoicing that it installed plebeians in office. They deceive themselves. Royalty exalted plebeians just because it aimed at becoming absolute; it became absolute because it had exalted plebeians.