Quotes on School

We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.

They will not stop me, I will get my education, if it is in home, school or any place

Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I could spend my days in the public library reading all the wonderful books at my disposal.

The lessons I learned in Sunday School have kept me on track

And that really captures the difference for the bullied straight kid versus the bullied gay kid, is that the bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. [...] And I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.

Much of our lives involves the word “no.” In school we are mostly told, “Don't do it this way. Do it that way.” But art is the big yes. In art, you get a chance to make something where there was nothing.

One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home, not at school.

If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience.

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

Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction of machinery in the rank of a demonstrative science. The day will arrive when no school of mechanical drawing will be thought complete without teaching it.

Let us thank all those who teach in Catholic schools. Educating is an act of love; it is like giving life.

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."

School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next. This applies today in an even higher degree than in former times, for through modern development of economic life, the family

Most of it was nuts, but I was determined to be a drummer as soon as I left school.

Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers), caught between their conscience and the bleak horizon.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.