Quotes About School

There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.

If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

America may be the best country in the world, but that's kind of like being the valedictorian of summer school.

I remember once my kid got in trouble for saying to his teacher, "What time is fucking recess?" and I remember thinking, "Now where would he fucking pick up something like that?

TWELVE HOURS BEFORE AMBER LAMONT'S parents tried to kill her, she was sitting between them in the principal's office, her hands in her lap, stifling all the things she wanted to say.

I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.

If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about.

Under [Betsy DeVos] leadership, we can deliver a world-class education and school choice to all families.

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.

There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.

If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.

It's not the school, the curriculum, or the teacher, but motivation that is the single most important ingredient in learning.

I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?