Top 1200 Great Schools Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.

In my spare time, I volunteer at my daughters' schools so I can stay involved with the activities and parent/teacher community.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

Pompeii is taught at schools in England, and, for a young boy, the combination of the Roman Empire and a volcano was irresistible.

I had a great job and I lost it, but I'm doing great now, I have a great family, my daughters all live with me. Did I have a setback? Absolutely, but I don't look at it like a ruined my life.

Every school, including voucher and charter schools, must be held to strict accountability standards.

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn't even go into the same restaurants.

When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.

The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools.

Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place.

Just and equal society could be made by drastically improving the condition of India's public schools.

I grew up in a family that moved around a lot. I changed schools eight or nine times.

I grew up in a segregated community: I couldn't go to the public schools, beaches, certain parts of town.

I went to 11 different schools. It was a fantastic adventure, but I was incredibly sensitive and needed a bit more stability.

I'm usually torn by, 'What's the role of government to cure injustice?' Families, churches, and schools can be more of an instrument of change.

I wanted to go to Harvard because it felt like it would be the Hogwarts Academy of law schools.

I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

The violence in the schools of today will inevitably graduate to the streets, offices, cities, and borders of tomorrow.

Nothing about contraception should be taught in schools. There is no question that it will encourage sexual activity.

So many of our institutions have been overtaken by schools of thought, which are inherently a dead end.

Phil Neville could be on the road to one day, maybe, becoming the England manager. I know him closely. He was a great captain, a great leader. He's had great experience.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.

The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.

Nebraska and Indiana were really the only Division One schools that expressed any interest in me.

[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.

This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story.

American missionaries have free rein in Uganda. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, parliament.

Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!

To restore our public schools, we must put an end to the selfish agenda of the union bosses.

All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future

I have visited schools that have music programs and those that don't. I see the way the kids act with each other.

The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

It's important to promote tennis in inner city schools so kids in those areas have access to the sport.

I moved schools seven or eight times, but I never thought of it as a problem. I didn't become attached to people.

You cannot help but notice that schools that take music seriously tend to be more academically successful.

There were no good schools in my village. So my family moved so that my siblings and I would get a better education.

For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.

Administrations and administrative faculty work very hard to see that schools are diverse as much as possible.

Coming from art school, I had a great sense of style - as did The Beatles and the Stones - and I enjoyed projecting that. Image, attitude, great music and great lyrics - that was the '60s.

That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

We've built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.

Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so its probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.

We have got schools that can absolutely stand on their own two feet, and I think that's what we should be doing as Conservatives.

When I was visiting schools, I wanted to go and see what they got. After my visit, I knew that Kansas was good.

Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.

I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.

At different times my children went to Polish, British, and American schools, and they learned about 'the nation' in all of them.

Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths.

I was aware that a quarter of the children in the country are born in poverty, and that the condition of public schools in California was disastrous.

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.

I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time.

Back in the days when I was growing up, the SWAC had as good of talent as any schools in the state.

Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?

As a former school teacher, I know the importance of keeping everyone informed of what is going on in our schools.