Quotes About Schooling

She was ten months ahead of the curriculum and still bored.

If you ask me, it's all that schooling. It takes the fun out of life, being cooped up like that day after day...Books, now that's different. There's nothing like a book to keep you company of a long voyage.

High school dropout rates nationally - Not enough is being done on this issue.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.

I knew school was stupid since the fifth grade.

I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.

I didn't go to the 12th grade... I stopped at 11.

I always got good grades; I just didn't go to school much. I didn't like it.

I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.

In retrospect, I think I had some kind of learning disorder. I could kind of charm my way through grade school, but in high school... I could never seem to grasp things.

I grew up in Madras and did my schooling at St. Bedes and college at Loyola.

When I was in school, I had no one to guide me apart from my parents and teachers.

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.

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.

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

But aside from Willy's skill at learning another language which his father did not know enough to appreciate, his only distinction in schooling was mathematics. Numbers came easily to him. And it was not just simple mathematics but anything that was curious. Many nights in bed he pondered numbers.

Never let your schooling interfere with your education.

You don't know what the hell you look like when you're just some little schoolgirl.

I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.