Top 1200 Charter Schools Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

From the streets of Los Angeles to the public schools of the Bronx, there is no state of the Union where Latinos are not becoming local leaders and responsible politicians.

My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways.

My parents found good paying jobs, educated me and my brother in wonderful public schools, and entered the middle class.

Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged.

There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.

The money problem facing the country from 1789 to 1896 existed because Congress never exercised is authority to "coin money or regulate the value thereof" - but rather delegated that authority, sometimes by charter and sometimes by default, to the banking system. This despite the provision in the Constitution that charged Congress with the power to 'coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standards of weight and Measures.'

If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.

We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.

It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down.

In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.

I used my talent as a speaker giving lectures to young people at schools in Hungary and I speak against hatred and anti-Semitism.

Progressives control America's schools and text book industry and they dishonestly leave the ugliest parts of the collectivist story out.

I had no idea how one became an actor. I didn't know things such as drama schools existed. It all just sort of happened accidentally.

When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.

My dad instilled in me to naturally question all authority. I don't follow anything blindly. That's religion, cops, doctors, schools, you name it.

I vividly remember segregation - separate schools, sitting in the balcony at the movie theater, being barred from the public swimming pool.

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

I don't worry too much about sex education in the schools. If the kids learn it like they do everything else, they won't know how.

The last thing we need is efforts by some politicians and the NRA to arm educators and allow more guns in our schools.

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

I think our model is sustainable. If all schools operated like Liberty and charged what we charge, there wouldn't be a student loan problem in America.

Schools often box kids into predefined categories. But we don't know what amazing ideas, inventions, cures, and contributions all these youths really have.

Schools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs and abilities of the children who enter them.

I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.

The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of freedom which our fathers left unfinished shall be brought forth with shoutings and cries of grace unto it, when our now drooping Liberty lifts up her head and prospers, happy will he be who can say, with John Milton, "Among those who have something more than wished her welfare, I, too, have my charter and freehold of rejoicing to me and my heirs."

Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation.

There is nothing in ANC policy which calls for attacks on civilians in supermarkets, schools, and cinemas unless these are regarded as military installations.

A movement got started for common schools, and by the end of the 19th century, 91 percent of Americans could read and write.

The terror of the ordinary is what keeps many affluent, educated parents and their kids out of the merely 'decent' schools, the ones that are simply 'fine.'

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

Football players are busy (with) study halls and tutoring. Well, anyway, at South Carolina they are. I don't know about all these other schools.

Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools.

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

You can't just abandon accountability measures in schools... Educators want that because otherwise they can't identify achievement-gap issues for students.

Mackie is an electronics recording company backing me, and they're willing to invest giving equipment to schools that I choose, and they've already started doing that.

Most people understand that Lehman Brothers didn't collapse because Gordon Brown built too many schools and hospitals.

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis, I switched my major to English and theater.

I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible.

Hindutva is an idea where you learn things that schools and colleges do not teach you - to say we are all one because DNA says there is no such thing as Aryan or Dravidian.

Almost 4.25 lakh toilets were built in 2.62 schools nationwide in one year; this gives self-confidence that we can do what we want.

Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals.

It's important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections.

If sharp-elbowed parents are no longer able to buy themselves out of state education, they are incentivised to improve their local schools.

As a chef and as a father, I am very upset by what's on the menu at most schools: chicken nuggets and tater tots and ketchup and pizza.

I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.

I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.

I feel as if most people are pretty much the same within a certain class, due to the schools they attend and the way they are raised.

Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.

A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

My all-time favorite TED talks are Brene Brown's 'The Power of Vulnerability' and Sir Ken Robinson's 'Do Schools Kill Creativity.'

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

Public schools have given so much to our family - I've been proud to fight for them as a state senator and lieutenant governor.

We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.

I'm really considering all the schools. It's not fair for me to only look at certain... programs just because they had players that are at my stature.

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit