Quotes About Schooling

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.

Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic!

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure.

The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.

The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

I'd been troubled throughout high school that in my robustly multiracial school my advanced placement classes were almost exclusively white. I knew something was wrong.

The masses are crude, lame, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them but to drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

I do my schooling through an independent study program where I am able to do all my work at home, and then every two weeks, I meet with my teacher and turn in my work. When I am on set, I work with a studio teacher, and we do a mandatory three hours of school a day.

This is going to sound weird, but I never went to normal school; I went to online school.

It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

I always thought that a prep school was what some people went to after high school to prepare themselves for college.

Would I put my daughter in a private all-girl school? No. Would I put her in a private co-ed school? Yes. Would I put her in the school I went to? No way.

I love Montclair. I loved it; it was great for my kids. I raised them all there, brought them up through the Montclair school system, and two of my daughters went to Montclair State.

The bottom line is we believe that parents are the best equipped to make choices for their children's schooling and education decisions.

I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

Schools that are freely accessible allow the organization of certain specific learning tasks which a person might propose to himself. Schools, when they are compulsory - as we see at this moment in the United States - create a dazed population, a 'learned' population, a mentally pretentious population, such as we have never seen before.