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Quotes About School

Shocked, the teacher rushed out and brought back the headmistress. Throughout the rest of the period, both of them tried to figure out who set off the bomb and gave us lectures on our rowdy behaviour.
~ Chetan Bhagat
done it. However, just prior to the teacher's arrival, someone had a brainwave. He planted a Diwali bomb with a
~ Chetan Bhagat
If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home.
~ Anonymous teacher, c. 1960
Ahhhh, welcome to the paradox of the home office. The more flexible the arrangement, especially around kids, school and sports activities… the more likely one ends up twisted like a pretzel.
~ Rob Harrell, Adam@Home, 2001
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
~ H. L. Mencken
Sure a boxer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; I once met a Headmaster called Meekin on a plane and he said:if boxers all owned doctorates then teachers would need to do a whole lot less fighting."
~ Héctor López
To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
~ Hans Rosling
What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.
~ Harold Howe
Those on the other side of the debate argued forcefully that consolidated schools—with their advanced curriculums, professionally trained teachers, and classes extending through high school—were the only means of affording farm children the kind of educational opportunities available to their urban counterparts. In the end, after two years of bitter struggle, the proponents of consolidation prevailed in Bath when the township voted to fund a new school.10
~ Harold Schechter
The official dedication of the Bath Consolidated School building, attended by about 250 people, took place on Tuesday, November 14. Speeches were made, commemorative poems written specially for the occasion were recited. Following the program, guests "were invited to light refreshments served in the Home Economics room" and given a tour of the building by members of the high school junior class.14
~ Harold Schechter
So he went into the wilderness and lived on fruits and nuts. After a long time he returned to his old school, and when he saw the teacher he said to him, 'I think I have learned it. See if I have. Shall I write on this wall? And when he made his sign the wall split in two.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to be hunted down and forced to watch hours of educational televison without the aid of caffine.
~ Heather Brewer
Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and guardians don't care if they're sending you to face bloodthirsty monsters, so long as you get a B in English.
~ Heather Brewer
It's funny how getting stabbed through the heart by a friend can bring your whole school year down.
~ Heather Brewer
Some grown-ups could be so inherently stupid. Try banning homework sometime. You might see those straight A's so many parents long for.
~ Heather Brewer
Why is it that parents always want to know every detail about your boring day at school?
~ Heather Vogel Frederick
the only place more germ laden than a hospital is an elementary school.
~ Laurie Frankel
It was as if those school years bred a nostalgia so deep into the cells that the body woke to it each fall as naturally as the squirrels in the park began their frenzied harvest, never mind the weather was still fine, the sun still gracing them all.
~ Laurie Frankel
Children learn many wonderful things in kindergarten. How to line up for lunch. How to use inside voices. How to not push people. Important life skills for sure. I use them every day myself. But they learn other things too: you have to conform, or people might not like you; you have to be the same because different doesn't feel good. At home, Claude's loved no matter what. At school, it sometimes feels the opposite: you are not loved no matter what.
~ Laurie Frankel
Description of reading Lord of the Flies for school: It is only 208 pages, I have already read it, and it is not very interesting. It is by William Golding who won an award for showing that boys are mean and badly behaved, even somewhere nice like the beach. This seems like something anyone in the entire world who has ever met a boy could tell you, but they gave William Golding a Nobel Prize for it.
~ Laurie Frankel
Two's description of reading Lord of the Flies for school: It is only 208 pages, I have already read it, and it is not very interesting. It is by William Golding who won an award for showing that boys are mean and badly behaved, even somewhere nice like the beach. This seems like something anyone in the entire world who has ever met a boy could tell you, but they gave William Golding a Nobel Prize for it.
~ Laurie Frankel
Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
CONJUGATE THIS: I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish because I did not go to Spanish today. Gracias a dios. Hasta luego.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program in my school wasn't really great - people didn't really want to be part of the choir, they didn't want to do the plays and stuff like that. It definitely wasn't the cool thing to do.
~ Lea Michele