Quotes About Education

I mean Zeke McDonald and Kenny Patel, the left and right butt cheeks of Cathedral School of the Arts.

Catholic schools in New York City.

Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Socrates.

sheepish. "My job is to give these kids guidance on mise-en-scène

Better readers are better thinkers.

Our five-hundred-plus library-loving comedians march down the halls behind me.

so imagine the day your great-great-grandmother was born. Got it? Now go back another hundred years or so. And then another hundred. That's about when they built Hills Village Middle School. Of course, I think it was a prison for Pilgrims back then, but not too much has changed. Now it's a prison for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders.

Back to math, science, social studies, killer bullies, killer food (not in the good way)

still didn't have any idea how I was going to pull this whole thing off, but it almost didn't matter. I just couldn't wait to start figuring it out. In fact—and please don't tell anyone I said this—for the first time in my life, I was actually looking forward to going back to school.

By the time we got to Section 6 ("Grounds for Expulsion"), my brain was turning into guacamole, and I'm pretty sure my ears were

But I'm the professor! This is my class! Show some respect!" "Okay

Why are you here, young man? Shouldn't you be home watching Thomas the Tank Engine with the rest of the kids in your kindergarten class?

And? you're thinking. Spaghetti Bolognese?! you're thinking. What's that got to do with anything? Well, as my homeroom teacher Mr. Rourke would say, "read on Macduff," which is something to do with Shakespeare. See? You've learned something already!

We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.

Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.

Through educational programming, Jewish American History Month will help raise the awareness of a people, their history and contributions. It will help combat anti-Semitism, a phenomenon that is on the rise and that unfortunately still exists in our Nation.

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.

Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.

I was only in college, unfortunately, for, um, a year. I think my major was public relations, and I had no idea what it meant except it seemed maybe attainable.

Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.

Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that.

I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.

There were not many black students at Juilliard, unfortunately. So when you get there, you become very good friends, in particular, with the other black students.