Quotes About Schooling

In schools today, on paper it may appear that kids are learning skills but in reality they are only renting them, soon to forget what they've learned over the weekend or summer vacation.

For the very nature of the product designer's role in industry tends to militate against his effectiveness. He is schooled--and presumably motivated--to design things for people; but he is retained to design things for the market.

The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.

My parents wanted to keep me away from girls, so they sent me to a Catholic boy's school, the Loyola Academy in Chicago.

The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass.

I expect there will be more public charter schools.

When I began teaching, my colleagues and I quickly realized that our students didn't have access to the same resources we had growing up. We knew there were supplies and resources that could help our students, but our school district simply couldn't afford them.

My husband and I both attended public schools. We believe in the benefits, both individual and communal, of supporting public schools.

But to lose oneself in a city—as one loses oneself in a forest—that calls for quite a different schooling. Then signboards and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a crackling twig under his feet, like the startling call of a bittern in the distance, like the sudden stillness of a clearing with a lily standing erect at its center.

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good.

The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

Because of the kind of music that I liked, and the different way that I dressed, it was kind of a perfect storm, creating a situation where I existed on my own throughout my schooling.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to be decided by those I political power.

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.

If you are at school you must be royalty because you have lots of subjects.

Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention

we are all born educated, but we need education to be educated

There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.