Quotes About Schooling

According to Educator's Newsletter, eighty percent of us have high self-esteem in first grade; by twelfth grade only five percent of us still feel good about ourselves. As the Luno newsletter comments, those statistics raise "the possibility that school is the biggest mental health problem we've ever known.

What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys' schooling interfere with their education!

Never let schooling interfere with education.

This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve, whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years of my life in study. Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion. I'd had more of books, but he had more of learning.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every person, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor." And this DUMMY

El problema es que para cuando los profesores han acabado contigo, han arrasado completamente tu creatividad. Habla con los buenos estudiantes de «sobresaliente» y descubrirás que se han olvidado, en primer lugar, de porqué querían ser artistas. Todo lo que saben es reciclar la vieja basura rígida que aprendieron en la escuela.

SCHOOL—WHAT COULD BE SCARIER THAN THAT?

It disturbs me when Obama says in the State of the Union address that he wants to make dropping out of school at 18 illegal, because people learn differently and before there are forms of learning for every type of person in the world, we shouldn't be condemned for leaving.

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

I went to university for a year, and I'm not one for schooling and have no enjoyment sitting in a classroom all day and ended up going to live in England for two years, just to travel. I worked in a bar in a hotel for a couple of years and had no intention of becoming an actor. That's where I met my agent.

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

Under her high brows, she eyed him straight on and straight across. She had gone to girls' schools, he recalled later. Those girls looked straight at you.

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

As someone who went to school in the '70s and '80s, I can't say that I noticed much of a 'medals for all' culture myself.

But why, he said with animation, do the English not read their own great literature? Victor laughed triumphantly, and said, Because at school they are made to hate it.

The school as at fault for trying to make me memorise stupid stuff rather than stimulating me

The school as at fault for trying to make me memorize stupid stuff rather than stimulating me

I don't think you're aloud to be homeschooled if you don't have a home.

The way of education leads away from home. That is what we learned from our children's education.

she was not 'cool' enough to be in such a position – a legacy of her school experiences, perhaps.

The first trait is servility. At school, our education system hammers out our individual voices and kills our natural creativity, turning us into servile, course-material slaves. Our

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during the school term.

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.