Quotes About School

the Massachusetts School for Idiotic Children

The purpose of school, Zimbardo notes, is to turn present-oriented little beasts into responsible future-oriented children.

The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.

So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

I punched my buddy in the nose after lunch, now I'm in trouble cause the dean saw the punch.

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.

My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.

I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.

My education [takes place] during the holidays from Eton.

I'm certainly very conservative when it comes to education. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're going to have education at a local level.

I want to fully fund education, No Child Left Behind, special-needs education. And that's how we're going to be more competitive, by making sure our kids are graduating from school and college.

We're going to end Common Core. Going to bring our education local.

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

School is one thing. Education is another. The two don't always overlap. Whether you're in school or not, it's always your job to get yourself an education.

It is imperative for US to parent our children and educate them outside of the school systems, as our education system was not designed to lift US out of oppression.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.

Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.

I believe in local control of education.

It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.

I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.