Quotes About Schooling

The most privileged were sent to school in France, as both my grandfathers were

what I was given to study in school I have forgotten; what I decided to read on my own, I still remember.

The very idea of schooling used to be about learning so that we could improve our lives and the world. But a perfect world needs no improvement. Like most everything else we do, grade school through the highest of universities, is just a way to keep us busy.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

When millions of kids are missing out on school, delivering educational services becomes an issue that concerns the humanitarian system.

I'm a gypsy: no education, no schooling, nothing. I don't care what people think of me. I don't care about being a hero, a role model, a champion.

I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.

Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.

Education is the most important thing you can have.

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Of particular interest were those printed in the nineteenth century when my grandfather spent his few minutes at school.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

A child only educated at school is an uneducated child.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

I'm probably one of the few people who can say I did all three types of state sector schooling.

I took mechanical drawing, geometry and typing at high school, the latter because that is what they did with smart girls in those days!

I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.

Every kid has a right to some rebellion. I'd been angelic all through school. It evens out.

There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either.

Doctors and nurses seemed to have been born and raised in the hospital, with only short punctuations of absenteeism for such things as schooling and marriage.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

It's funny to find there are still people around who think if a musician has schooling, it automatically makes him a lesser jazz player. But you don't learn jazz in school.