Quotes on School Life

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

The stage was our school, our home, our life.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.