Quotes About School

I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.

The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

Life is like a school, we are the student of it: Experience is our Teacher.

All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.

This disease they call 'rap' - some kind of rhythmic pulse is going by, while some sociopathic idiot is belching out grade school poetry.

I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

that the new opportunities for learning require us to articulate a fundamental revision of the value of school and the roles of teachers and classrooms. The

In elk geval komt er een tijd dat het christendom uit boekjes geleerd zal worden op school, net zoals men nu de mythologie van de Grieken en de Romeinen op school leert.

That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.

He maintained later that he stopped seeing Fenton because he lost his insurance when he dropped out of graduate school, implying that if she'd kept seeing him, he wouldn't have committed the Century 16 murders.

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.

The students would burn out if forced to spend their entire day amidst the social intensity of the cafeteria and hallway. Fortunately the school authorities also schedule dormant periods, called classes, during which the students can rest their minds and take a break from the pressures of social categorization. Students correctly understand, though adults appear not to, that socialization is the most intellectually demanding and morally important thing they will do in high school.

Fpr ome aftermppm a week leading up to the formal, the entire senior school body would pile into our massive gymnasium and learn dances that we would NEVER DANCE AGAIN, except at our own children's formals, perhaps. Nevertheless, we threw ourselves into the task as if we were living in a Jane Austen novel and this was the only way we would ever fit into society. (from How to Be Happy: A Memoir of Love, Sex and Teenage Confusion)

the strongest predictor of students' success is related to their social circumstances. The social, intellectual, and fiscal resources, or "capital," students bring with them into schools, whether charter or traditional, are much more important than the structure of the school or even the quality of the teachers

private school teachers tend to have fewer credentials and to cling to traditional teaching styles, such as lecturing while students sit in rows and take notes. Public school teachers, by contrast, are much more likely to be certified, to hold higher degrees, and to embrace research-based innovations in curriculum and pedagogy

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

But after children leave their parents' arms, school is still the necessary place for knowledge and soul to spring into life and good teachers are still the instigators of that miracle.

The family—how much of a nation's happiness and prosperity depends on that institution as a nursery, a school, a society, a sanctuary, a little church, and an emblem of the great family—"the whole family," part of which is in heaven, and part still on earth! There

Anyway, that's all art school is. A big clusterfuck for rich poseurs. Who the fuck needs it? But it's a system, right? You have to go to the art schools to get into the galleries, to learn how to talk that bullshit. That's what they're learning, to talk bullshit. The Serialist David Gordon