Top 1200 School System Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.

I went to a progressive primary school in Kendal, followed by a boys' grammar school and then Cambridge.

I'm old-school. I want to be there to drop off my daughter at school and pick her up.

I have a great female support system. We encourage each other because we all face some of the same difficulties. We all experience mommy guilt. It's always great to have an uplifting support system.

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.

I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.

The key is the Internet. The United States is by far the most advanced country in this new digital culture, so we have to be there. The Internet is the heart of this new civilization, and telecommunications are the nervous system, or circulatory system.

When I was in elementary school, the coach of our school (soccer) team personally unearthed my talents.

Gold is not less but more rational than paper money. Money holds value so long as it is in limited supply; gold will always be in limited supply, and would require real resources to produce even from the sea; paper and printing ink are not in limited supply. The gold system is much closer to a modern automatic scientific control system than the crude and relatively unstable system of paper.

As I got into middle school, I was really an outcast. But everybody was an outcast in middle school. I don't know who got the idea to put all kids going through puberty together in a school and give them academic elitism and competition and pit them against each other.

And let's not forget that internally, we are, like all dying empires, being hollowed out from the inside in terms of infrastructure. I live near Philly, I live in Princeton. The school system is shattered with closings and layoffs. Libraries are being shuttered. Head Start is being cut back. Unemployment benefits are not being extended. You know, we've reached a point of both physical and emotional exhaustion.

I think it's imperative to keep your focus on why you're in school. You're in school to get an education.

The Great Depression in the United States, far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system, is a testament to how much harm can be done by mistakes on the part of a few men when they wield vast power over the monetary system of the country.

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter.

I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.

I went to a school two hours away from where I lived because it was the best rugby school in the country.

If you want to think of a company as a system, design the system to benefit all. So how can you raise wages, increase training, and reduce carbon, and provide low-prices? We believe that it's possible to deliver, and I find a lot of other likeminded CEOs, as it relates to thinking that way.

Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.

I liked school except for having to get up early and, of course, high school drama!

I'm from Wisconsin; well, that's where I went to school from, like, sixth grade till I graduated high school.

Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.

When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.

I was always super outgoing, loud, the social butterfly of my high school and elementary school.

Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.

I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper.

School kids don't know the world is a million times bigger than school's version of it.

If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.

I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

Most people I was at school with, if they saw me on telly, wouldn't know I'd been at school with them.

I try to make my schedule around parent-teacher conferences, school plays, and school trips.

I found school pretty tough. I got the mickey taken out of me at school.

I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Spending an extra dollar on the D.C. public school system isn't spending an extra dollar on education. Spending an extra dollar with the Pentagon doesn't buy you an extra dollar on defense. Republicans need to look skeptically at military spending.

I didn't go to film school. My Grampa always says just watch a lot of movies. He didn't go to film school; he went to theatre school. It's interesting to learn about the technical side of it, but I think it's more important to learn about writing and working with actors.

Sometimes, we didn't have enough to eat. I'd go to school with no lunch money, and my school would have to provide it.

I was good in science in school and parents thought I would become a school teacher like my mother.

I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the bottom class at school. In Australia, a lot of students study to the end of year 10, but don't go on to the final year, and I was asked to leave the school because they just thought I wasn't performing well enough. I used to sneak off to play piano, and defy the rules of the school.

Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.

All my life - middle school, high school - I've always been worried what are people going to think.

I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in.

In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

At primary school, I thought I was George Best. Then I got to secondary school, and it was more serious.

It's not who you're going to sit beside at school that matters now: it's what resources will your school have.

The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school.

Northwestern was never known as a sports school. I was proud to add a national title to the school.

The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather, he is ethically depraved, a criminal willing radical evil. And since it is radical evil that is manifest here, evil per se, forming the absolute negative pole of every value-system, kitsch will always be evil, not just kitsch in art, but kitsch in every value-system that is not an imitation system.

This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the old Soviet Union. This is what investors do in free enterprise and capitalism system. [...[ And, yes, free enterprise system can be cruel. But the problem with this administration is that small businesses are the one who had suffered the most, the kind that need investors, the kinds that don't need the hundreds of pages, thousands of pages of regulations that continue to plague them and have them hold back on the hiring investment.

I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

By high school, I was putting the music for the services together and teaching Sunday school to everybody's kids.

Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter is itself a weapon of patriarchal terrorism.

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

There are certain concepts, which exist in English, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa. Hebrew has a system of tenses, which is, in a big way, different from the English system of tenses, probably different than any European system of tenses, which means a different sense of reality, which means a different concept of time. So, things can be translated, but they become different.

I do believe that mentorship is something I did not get in school, and I don't think it exists in school in a sufficient way.

School doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.

Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.

I'm still in school - I'm home-schooled. I do school every day. I finish in, like, four months.

My parents have always been very supportive. I didn't go to school because my home was my school.

I worked while in high school and college so that I could pay for school. I also had loans.