Quotes About Schooling

I know I earn less at my primary school than you do, but I don't have to work as hard at my primary school.

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school.

But I really feel strongly that our kids do way too much homework. The research is on my side. It's easy to make a fuss when you're right. That can be the tagline of my life: 'It's Easy To Make A Fuss When You're Right.'

It's one of my biggest internal struggles - the whole schooling system in London and the fact that my kids are going to a posh school. It freaks me out.

Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.

I think Liberty students ought to date a lot without commitment in mind. If you're thinking commitment - and you probably shouldn't until you're a senior - you don't want to start your marriage off under the constraints of poverty and schooling.

During our time, we used to go to school at the age of six.

What did you learn in school today, Dear little boy of mine? What did you learn in school today, Dear little boy of mine? I learned that Washington never told a lie. I learned that soldiers seldom die. I learned that everybody's free. And that's what the teacher said to me. That's what I learned in school today. That's what I learned in school.

And from that time on the boys were no longer called Elder and Younger, but they were given school names by the old teacher, and this old man, after inquiring into the occupation of their father, erected two names for the sons; for the elder, Nung En, and for the second Nung Wen, and the first word of each name signified one whose wealth is from the earth.

Now imagine a different society, for example the Congo or Haiti, where a large fraction of the population has no means of attending school, or where, if they manage to go to school, the quality of teaching is lamentable, where teachers do not show up for work, and even if they do, there may not be any books.

They think schools stop you from learning,' I said. 'They think schools try to make everybody just the same.

I Philo, educating yourself was something you had to do in spite if school, not because of it -- which is basically why so many of my high school peers are still there in Philo even now, selling one another insurance, drinking supermarket liquor, watching television, awaiting the formality of their first cardiac.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

I want a tutor," Layla said. "It would make doing homework so much easier." "Me too," said Kaitlyn. "If Layla gets one, I get one." "No daughter of mine will ever have a tutor," Dad said. "What if we're failing a course?" asked Layla. His graying eyebrows drew together. "If you fail a single course, young lady, we will pull you out of school and get you a job scrubbing toilets for the rest of your life.

Grouping students by the same age is just a bad idea. The education-industrial complex is structured around organizing children by age. This is a bad idea for so many reasons.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

He'd be fine. Every child went to school. They survived. They learned the rules of life.

It had felt like she was starting a new job: her job as a primary school mother. There would be rules and paperwork and procedures to learn.

When we talk about homeschooling today, we're amazed at how many people agree that they didn't learn much in school, that school teaches kids to pass the test and move on rather than explore and investigate and inquire...

Walter didn't really have much to do with the girls' schooling, especially after all that business with the social services when Erin was in year six.

When I signed for Vancouver, it was funny because my mom didn't really want me to move away. She was concerned about all my schooling.

I went to Brighton College, Shoreham College for one year, then to Spring Valley High School in Las Vegas for a couple of years.