Quotes About Schooling

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, the life of a secondary schoolmaster was as miserable as it has ever been,

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

Nothing is more important than a good education.

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

The last thing we need to do, relating to teachers, is the key to a good education in this country is a strong teacher. I would have a minimum wage for all our teachers, $40,000 per year.

I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.

I was a good student in school.

The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.

Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.

I think kids should go to high school until they're 30. No, really, because people are staying younger now and there's nothing to do. If you stayed longer, then it would be really great.

In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.

Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents.

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

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

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.

By 1997, when Kansas City finally gave up, it had the most extravagant schools in the country, but the percentage of whites was lower than ever and blacks' test scores had not budged.

The larger purpose of school integration was to solve the American dilemma, but integration had three specific goals of its own: Lift black academic achievement, raise black self-esteem, and give black and white children better impressions of each other. There have now been hundreds of studies of the effects of school integration, and none of these goals has been achieved.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. —MARK TWAIN   There

It is far more difficult to observe correctly than most men imagine; to behold is not necessarily to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much to be regretted that habits of exact observation are not cultivated in our schools; to this deficiency may be traced much of the fallacious reasoning, the false philosophy which prevails.

I didn't collect my GCSEs. I didn't even do most of them.

I've nothing against schools! I'm against compulsory schooling.

Parents who don't like Success should find a school they do like. For someone to enroll their child at Success and insist we change our model is like a person walking into a pizzeria and demanding sushi. If you want sushi, go to a sushi restaurant!