School Quotes
We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, ...
Show MoreI had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as lon...
Show MoreWhen two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I ...
Show MoreWhen two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I ...
Show MoreWhen two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I ...
Show MoreWhen two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I ...
Show MoreDana raised her hand. "I learned about exaggeration," she said. "It was all my teacher ever talked a...
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The medium of response in America is fame; that's how a person that bounces a ball can make millions...
Show MoreYet that is considered an excellent school, and I dare say it would be if the benighted lady did not...
Show MoreI was an elementary school teacher.
In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You h...
Show MoreI never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would le...
Show MoreIt's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but re...
Show MoreBasically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes...
Show MoreI saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16 I wasn't ...
Show MoreThere were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all...
Show MoreThere is no better taste than this: someone else's laughter in your mouth.

Please kiss that girl a million times.

I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren't...
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It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing a...
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After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

Did you get notes for me?""No", Ronan replied,"I thought you were dead in a ditch.

I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go b...
Show MoreIn some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in o...
Show MoreSome parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.
I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in thei...
Show More..it lay in the true function of the university to promote that interplay of view, that discussion a...
Show MoreYou don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people ...
Show MoreIn school all I wanted to do was build technology. That's what I loved.
I'm not really well educated - other than an art survey course at the High School of Art and Design ...
Show MoreI cherished my time playing high school sports.
They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it mark...
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I went to a performance-art high school, and a teacher there was signing me up for open-mic nights a...
Show MoreThe societies kids naturally form are tribal. Gangs, clubs, packs. But we're herded into schools and...
Show MoreAt three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs...
Show MoreWhat is generally known as discipline in traditional schools is not activity, but immobility and sil...
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and coul...
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I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from ...
Show MoreThe apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when...
Show MoreI went to a high school that didn't have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my senior...
Show MoreA coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro ...
Show MoreYou went to school," Lee said. "I mean, at some point. And it didn't suit you very well. They wanted...
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Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an unde...
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You can't eat straight A's.

No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistica...
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We're all born with curiosity, but at some point, school usually manages to knock that out of us.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some p...
Show MoreMy dad died of a heart attack when I was 15. I was bullied mercilessly in middle school. I went thro...
Show MoreIf nothing else, school teaches that there is an answer to every question; only in the real world do...
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Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed...
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Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn...
Show MoreWhen I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to imp...
Show MoreCreationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible...
Show MoreIs it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authori...
Show MoreWhen they set off for their first day at their new school, I will never forget that winter morning a...
Show MoreYou have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Bec...
Show MoreWe learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the te...
Show MoreI remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT g...
Show MoreI like to engage the public because when I was in high school, I had all these questions about anti-...
Show MoreMy dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that...
Show MoreI thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond t...
Show MoreAnd before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true ch...
Show MoreSecond, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers ...
Show MoreWhen I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular acti...
Show MoreFriendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friend...
Show MoreAcademia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsu...
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There was no room for dust devils in the laws of physics, as least in the rigid form in which they w...
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The mysterious Enoch Root meets 8-year-old Benjamin Franklin, Boston, 1713: "Do I look like a school...
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You're weird,' she said. 'You don't have any friends.''I didn't come here for friends,' said Bod tru...
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I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to lo...
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They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of...
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Life is a learned skill, but instead of teaching it, our culture force-fills developing minds with l...
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When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value l...
Show MoreOn the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that...
Show MoreBefore I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the t...
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It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's abo...
Show MoreI'd love to design a school.
I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of...
Show MoreAll of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers an...
Show MoreEinstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living.
When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like...
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I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia,...
Show MoreYou can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, ...
Show MoreThe problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unio...
Show MoreWhen I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artist...
Show MoreI grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,2...
Show MoreBullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation....
Show MoreAt high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. Th...
Show MoreAt age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for B...
Show MoreWriting was in my mind from the time I was in high school, but more, the idea that I would be a doct...
Show MoreLa Mancha is a very macho, chauvinistic society. I saw very clearly that my life had to be in Madrid...
Show More[On hearing that 86% of gay teens have experienced harassment] Eighty-six percent? Eighty-six per-fu...
Show MoreNow a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I s...
Show MoreFollowing my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by H...
Show MoreI think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film sc...
Show MoreOur public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demand...
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