Top 1200 Great Schools Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
In primary schools, I set two main objectives - to cut infant class sizes and improve literacy and numeracy.
I have fought so heavily against corporate tax breaks, especially because I've seen our schools in Detroit close down.
I like going to schools and telling classes that when I was a child, I failed every "will this kid become a writer" test.
Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties.
My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.
It's my feeling that on sensitive, localized issues like our schools, it's important to lead with the carrot and not force peoples' hands.
The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.
Typically cult groups target universities and colleges. Most likely those schools that maintain campus housing.
America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
I think the Republicans are subverted by the fact that so many of their leaders send their kids to private schools, they don't really have the stomach for the fight.
I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.
Actually creating a positive school climate, particularly in schools that are in communities that are themselves not calm and orderly, is hard work.
Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.
If the day ever comes when I think something is okay simply because district schools do it, I hope my board fires me.
After being thrown out of the house, four schools and the United States Army, I discovered that I was on the right track.
So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.
For a while, some schools across the country were banning spelling bees. For obvious reasons, of course - steroids
Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.
In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong.
Mrs. Palin has neither pushed for creationism in Alaska schools nor moved to ban a single book in Wasilla.
The truth is, for many young people, the changing schools or starting a new academic year is really difficult to deal with.
As governor, Im spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
Most charter schools admit students by random lottery, making it impossible for them to pick only the best.
Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.
I didn't go to fancy schools or come from money or from a family that valued law or public speaking in any shape or form.
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.
I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana.
I'm asking for the vote of every single African-American citizen. You're living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs.
The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
Single-sex private schools, especially in the middle of nowhere on a bleak hill in County Durham - I don't think they make sense.
We never see the fancy schools with the blazers and ties in films about Africa! But, in fact, we too have class and elitism.
It’s millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools, the hospitals, and a lot of life in America.
The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging.
I'm all in favor of supporting fancy museums and elite schools, but face it: These aren't really charities as most people understand the term.
Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.
It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads.
A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.
I went to 17 different schools when I was a kid. Every time I went to school, no matter what I talked like, it was always from the wrong place.
Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?
It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.
We are fortunate to live an area that is blessed with outstanding schools and educators. We are proud of the quality of education that they provide to local students.
There are plenty of good drama schools and academies helping children and young people to learn to sing, dance, and act.
My son William is only nine but he's had four public schools so far, one in Cornwall, one when I was at Sheffield, one in Beckenham when I was at Palace.
Its amazing that so many kids turn out to be fairly normal, considering the weird socialization they get in public schools.
There are schools that have rules against afro puffs. They say it's distracting. But nobody is saying that about a little girl who has ponytails.
For the most part, metal has been underground. It's too dangerous for mom and dad and schools. It will probably always be that way.
The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.
I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended.
When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.
History education in schools is so poor that students often enter college ignorant of the past - and leave just as unenlightened.
Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.
In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.
Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.
One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
One of the reasons I chose Tufts is that they have one of the best veterinary schools in the country. Since I was six years old, I wanted to be a veterinarian.
I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.
