Quotes About Schooling

Don't let school get in the way of your education.

Don't let school interfere with your education.

I never let schooling interfere with my education

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

Never let school interfere with your education

The more time I spent at the Finches', the more I realized what a waste of my life this school crap was. It was nothing but a holding tank for kids without bigger plans or ideas.

I'm a big believer in education, period.

Schools don't teach people to reason thoroughly; they select the applicants with higher IQs, and people with higher IQs are able to generate more reasons.

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

They were all lawyers, all schooled in the authority of words, though as their words turned to dust a pall of impotence and futility settled over the mission.

My success or failure in school was dependent on my ability to follow a curriculum that felt as if it had very little to do with me as a human being.

I wouldn't have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best… But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching me algebra

and parents would volunteer their time in lieu of paying the small tuition.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

While the most disadvantaged students - most often poor students of color - receive the most considerable academic benefits from attending diverse schools, research demonstrates that young people in general, regardless of their background, experience profound benefits from attending integrated schools.

I say all the time I think there should be some courses in the regular schooling system that isn't, even like about credit, things that matter later in life. I learned the harder way: 'Look, I got a $500 credit card in the mail, let's go shopping!'

I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.

I'll continue to fight for school choice and home schooling. Do I believe in accountability? You bet I do.

I was honestly never a huge school person.

School has never really been about individualized learning, but about how to be socialized as a citizen and as a human being, so that we, we have important rules in school, always emphasizing the fact that one is part of a group.

We used to think that schools built brains. Now we know that it is play that builds the brains that school can then use.

Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.

School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to slaughter in no-man's-land, when the conflict extended so much further, to the collapse of four empires and numerous civil wars.