Quotes About Schooling

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.

Too many feel that what they're good at isn't valued by schools.

tienes que hacer?». La chica contestaba: «Tengo que buscar el mínimo común denominador». El padre preguntaba: «¿Todavía lo están buscando? Ya estaban haciéndolo cuando yo iba al colegio». Sé cómo se sentía. Sin

Creo que fue la actriz y cómica estadounidense Phyllis Diller quien dijo que nos pasamos los tres primeros años de vida de nuestro hijo enseñándole a caminar y a hablar, y los siguientes doce años en la escuela diciéndole que se siente y se calle.

how the innate and insatiable curiosity young children have about the world gets absolutely killed by the tedium of school.

We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeming 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.

Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real — all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.

All skools make some sort of show at teaching the pupils things and the headmaster pin up a huge timetable of lessons etc which make the heart sink when you look at it. I mean do the grate british nation understand that thousands of its young elizabethans are looking at latin ugh before their breakfast hav even settled. I mean to sa how would they like saing mnerer moneraris moneretur etc at that hour eh?

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

The verb anatethrammenos may well mean "reared from infancy," and may express the claim that while he was born in Tarsus, his family moved to Jerusalem while he was still a child, and his entire schooling was in Jerusalem.

the understanding is capable of being instructed by and equipped with rules, the power of judgement is a special talent which cannot be taught, but can be practised. This is why power of judgement is the specific mark of our so-called native wit, the absence of which cannot be remedied by any schooling.

You don't need schooling to be a philosopher. Just an active mind and experience with life.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

In our era of zero tolerance, I would surely have spent most of elementary and middle school shuttling between suspensions and expulsions, with an occasional time out for social studies.

I was in a very multi-racial, multi-cultural schooling system. I had a really delightful childhood. I was a jock. I became a very competitive swimmer in Zimbabwe. I was a swimmer, a tennis player, a hockey player. Then, when I was 13, I joined a Children's Performing Arts workshop in Zimbabwe.

I thought I was leaving elected office and politics in order to focus on schooling, but as you know, schooling turns out to be frankly even more political than politics.

I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.

I had tutors, but education was just not a priority.

When I started modeling at 15, there were no provisions for on-set tutors, and so I dropped out of school. Although I was one of the lucky ones who went on to a successful career as a model, as a child I should never have been forced to make that choice - between modeling and education.

Part of the school dilemma results from an over-focus on testing results; home educators are free from that pressure, so you won't have to decide between test prep and expository writing.

True. The school admin decided that a girls clothes were more important than her education.

We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences.

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

He did not go to a school for the deaf. We would not permit him to learn the sign language. We were determined that he should live a normal life, and associate with normal children, and we stood by that decision, although it cost us many heated debates with school officials.