Quotes About Schooling

My dad is a retired headmaster and my mum is an ex-teacher. I was taught by both of them.

Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice.

I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

My parents spent an awful lot of money sending me to the best possible schools, and I came out of my exams and thought, 'I don't really want to do a degree.' I did philosophy with the Jesuits for about a year, and then I joined a bank. While I was there, I saw an ad in an Irish paper for radio announcers.

Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.

I passed the 11-plus, but it was decided that I should take the Common Entrance exam to Monmouth School, the nearest independent. I was never entirely comfortable there, as they didn't have girls, and they played rugby instead of football.

United States ranked No. 25 on international comparative tests. In Finland, which ranked No. 1, children don't start formal schooling until they're 7 years old,

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school.

Pour les fils de paysans, d'ouvriers, d'employés ou de petits commerçants, l'acquisition de la culture scolaire est acculturation.

I've always had strong ties with Delhi, and I do stay in touch with my friends and periodically visit the capital. I started my schooling at St. Columbus High School before I went to Mayo College. Delhi, for me, is a historical city with all its beautiful monuments.

At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment.

Investing in children's education is vital.

The president is married to a teacher. He knows how vital it is for students to be in classrooms.

It is common practice in many countries, such as U.S.A., Denmark and Holland, for different sections of society to set up their own schools, whether they are parents themselves, voluntary groups and charities, or private not-for-profit and for-profit companies.

I would never send my kids to a single-sex school.

At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me.

I do school on set and then when I come home I go back to school and kind of balance it out. One day I'll be 18 and then I won't have to do it.

I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.

My belief is that sports in school is not an extracurricular activity.

we employ so many of our early years, under the rod, to acquire, what it is not expected we should retain beyond the threshold of the school;