Quotes About School

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework

In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards

Dear Teacher. Please stop make us sleepy, we have no bed in class. Sincerely, students.

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.

Mandatory showers had been dropped in the fall, when Lilah Porter protested the archaic practice by staging a sit-in in the gym, where she set up a projector and played the shower scene from Carrie in a continuous loop until the school board caved.

At Field Elementary School in Omaha, I'd been the only one in my class to flunk kindergarten; I don't remember why

When you're in college you haven't had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities—that's about it.

University of Chicago is a Baptist school, where atheist professors teach Jewish students about St. Thomas Aquinas.

Always fighting, arguing, and mouthing off to teachers and other pupils alike. But it was never her fault, it was always someone else's fault.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

I see you every day at school, we are young but I know I love you. Every time I talk to you my heart beats fast my mouth goes dry my heart aches for you. It hurts to love you so much. I wish you knew. I'm to afraid to tell you how I feel.

Even now, in a good school, there is impersonality instead of close human contact; a sterile, cold atmosphere, an unfamiliar routine, language problems, and above all the maza-skan-skan, that damn clock—white man's time as opposed to Indian time, which is natural time.

In the old days, nature was our people's only school and they needed no other.

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

A mother is never cocky or proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child has just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.

Fui felice di sfoggiare quel poco che sapevo; e poiché mi sentivo già a mio agio con lui, gli domandai perché mai un vecchio volesse frequentare la scuola. Non si risentì; rispose che per un vecchio non imparare ciò che avrebbe potuto renderlo migliore era assai più disonorevole che per i ragazzi, dato che aveva avuto tutto il tempo di comprenderne l'importanza".

There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the house, writes the author in all seriousness describing a memorial service for a medical school's cadavers.

Bear in mind, people with eating disorders tend to be both competitive and intelligent. We are incredibly perfectionistic. We often excel in school,athletics,artistic pursuits. We also tend to quit without warning. Refuse to go to school,drop out,quit jobs,leave lovers,move,lose all our money. We get sick of being impressive. Rather,we tire of having to seem impressive. As a rule,most of us never really believed we were any good in the first place.

Richard Dawkins lamented,9 we think that our kids need to have "fun, fun, fun" rather than, say, experience wonder or interest (they are not the same thing) when going to school or a museum.

School is a temple of knowledge, the library is a temple of wisdom, and Church is a temple of God.

Mrs Elm had short grey hair and a kind and mildly crinkled oval face sitting pale above her turtle-green polo neck. She was quite old. But she was also the person most on Nora's wavelength in the entire school, and even on days when it wasn't raining she would spend her afternoon break in the small library.

Well, it all started when I figured out that the janitor at my high school was the Angel of Death…