Quotes on School

I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural.

I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.

Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.

Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

...That is one of the main causes of this arrogance: the idea of power. Then you lose your true power which is to be part of all, and the only way you can be part of all is to understand it. And when you don't understand, you have to go humbly to it. You don't go to school and say, 'I know what you're going to teach me'.

Business schools don't create successful people. They simply accept them, then take credit for their success.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials.

When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.

You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.

Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live and walk about -- came to know all things, to carry in their minds the whole of learning; would you not think I was romancing? Well, just this, which seems so fanciful as to be nothing but the invention of a fertile imagination, is a reality. It is the child's way of learning.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.