Quotes About Schooling

We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.

The history of the industrial revolution shows how that power passed from the king and the aristocracy to the bourgeoisie. Universal suffrage and universal schooling reinforced this tendency, and at last even the bourgeoisie stood in fear of the com- mon people. For the masses promised to become king.

But when she imagined college she thought of her dreary days in the schoolhouse in Lushoto, the heat of classrooms, the impatience of mathematics, bland two-dimensional maps pinned to walls. Green for land, blue for water, stars for capital cities. Schoolmasters obsessed with naming things that had existed unnamed for a million years.

I'm committed to spending more money on public education.

I went to public school up until junior high.

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

If a parent chooses to go to a school that is not a public school, then that is a decision made and a contract made with that provider.

There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.

I went to public school my entire life.

My wife has a public charter school for children with dyslexia. Almost every one of them has failed in a public school.

I started high school in L.A., but I went to public school in New York.

I grew up in the public schools, my mom taught in them, and then my daughter is in them.

I did my schooling at Holy Angels, where they had stringent rules. I coloured my hair blond and red and was pulled up by the principal.

I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him.

I found school very boring and frustrating.

We can't afford not to fully fund education.

Part of the beauty of wilderness schooling is that the overheads are very low. You want a classroom? Build a shelter from nature's store. You want to eat? Forage for it.

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.

I'm consumed with tech - medical, computational, impossible tech. So, I don't know exactly what I'll wind up doing, where I'll go with all this schooling, but I'm willing that it be better than my dogmatic vision of it all.

Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?

Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.

That the best students from mediocre schools were almost always a better bet than good students from the very best schools.

Schools work. The only problem with school, for the kids who aren't achieving, is that there isn't enough of it.

The school year in the United States is, on average, 180 days long. The South Korean school year is 220 days long. The Japanese school year is 243 days long.