Quotes About Schooling

Why can't we repeat 8th grace five times and call that a high school education?

School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.

John Milton called his school Christ College 'a stony-hearted stepmother'. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

A school is not a factory. Its raison d'être is to provide opportunity for experience.

It was nicer that way. knowing that something called rights existed. The right to health care, to good and to schooling for our children . . . For us things were good; for others they were bad. Especially for the landowners, who are the ones who suffered most when we demanded our rights. They spend more and earn less. Besides, once we learned about the existence of rights we also learned not to bow our heads when the bosses scolds us. We learned to look them in the face.

In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.

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.

But there's a small percentage who are nothing but born predators. And for them, no amount of good parenting, quality schooling, or therapy sessions will ever make a bit of difference.

The school system Nursery School 3 to 6 years Primary School 6 to 11 years Middle School 11 to 14 years Academic Studies 14 to 18 years Technical Institute 14 to 18 years Teacher-Training College 14 to 18 years Arts Academy 14 to 18 years University 18 years and over

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children in modern society] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there, and they are taught and told what to believe; they are passive from the very beginning – and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told?

Britain was the last developed country where beating schoolchildren was respectable. This was outlawed last year [1988] - by one vote in Parliament. Parents are now almost the last people left who can hit children without fear of penalty, as long as it's moderate and fitting punishment...the language of authority still derives from violence, mistakenly, tragically.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

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

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

From now on, we're home schooling you. Whatever we don't know, you don't know. When did the Korean War start? I don't know, and neither do you!

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

it's funny how I'm encouraged to go to school so much, but I've learned more valuable things on google then from school.

Public education is an investment in our future.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ...

When it comes to childhood, therefore, it was reasonable to suggest that a prolonged period before independence was required once humans began to perform difficult tasks, like hunting or making pottery and baskets. Children could spend their time practicing these skills, which would better prepare them for success as adults in a hunter-gatherer society. In effect, this idea would mean that children are schooling themselves, and were doing so long before formal education was invented.

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

I've never been a big believer in formal education.