Top 1200 Private Schools Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about the connection. Sex is how we pass down worldly goods. It's how we create the primary unit of our society, the couple. ... This rule applies to gay people as well as straight people. ... The community absolutely must know who is straight, who is gay, who is married, and who is single. Without that information we make painful mistakes and lose time.

Schools should bring back the whip.

Entrepreneurship is just one thing that needs to be in schools.

Liberals cling to the idea that critics of welfare are motivated by greed or callous disregard for the less fortunate. In fact, during the twenty-five years that followed Lyndon Johnson's declaration of war on poverty, U.S. tax payers spent $3 trillion providing every conceivable support for the poor, the elderly, and the infirm. Private foundations spent scores of billions more, and private and religious charities even more. Nevertheless, as Ronald Raegan later quipped, 'in the war on poverty, poverty won.'

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

Schools should be integrated by race and by class.

No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and to compel them to act against their own voluntary choice. Only a government holds that power. The nature of governmental action is: coercive action. The nature of political power is: the power to force obedience under threat of physical injury-the threat of property expropriation, imprisonment, or death.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

I expect there will be more public charter schools.

Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.

The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?

We've got to have good schools in every zip code.

Punjab history is hardly taught to students in schools.

I am committed to elevating our public schools.

It is better to support schools than jails.

Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.

People's fates in life are decided largely by their schools.

I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.

Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?

Year after year in Washington, budget debates seem to come down to an old, tired argument: on one side, those who want more government, regardless of the cost; on the other, those who want less government, regardless of the need....Government has a role, and an important role. Yet, too much government crowds out initiative and hard work, private charity and the private economy....Government should be active, but limited; engaged, but not overbearing.

We must consider teaching the Egyptian revolution in schools.

In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.

No, the czar did not want us in the schools.

Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays.

Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots.

At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which private life unfolded the gripping show of its adventures. Nowadays, time moves forward at a rapid pace. Forgotten overnight, a historic event glistens the next day like the morning dew and thus is no longer the backdrop to a narrator's tale but rather an amazing adventure enacted against the background of the over-familiar banality of private life.

I definitely think you should have wrestling in schools.

It's hard for parents just to measure schools.

We're asking schools to look at kids as partners in education.

I'm a proud product of the Massachusetts public schools.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Taking the arts out of schools is a terrible mistake.

If you take all the food aid, America is by far the most generous country. If you take the direct aid, we're very generous. But when you add on our private contributions - see, our tax system encourages private citizens to donate to organisations that, for example, help the folks in Africa. And when you take the combined effort of US taxpayers' money plus US citizens' donations, we're very generous. And we'll do more.

Good schools should be left alone.

I went to public schools, which is to say publicly financed.

Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced private spending. Furthermore, private spending is generally more efficient than the government spending that would replace it because people act more carefully when they spend their own money than when they spend other people's money.

I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

My dad was in the service, so I went to 12 schools in 13 years.

I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.

Let's make Holberton one of the biggest schools on the face of the planet.

We have successfully achieved the target of building toilets in schools.

There were no wrestling schools in Ireland. It was completely unheard of.

I expect there will be more virtual schools.

I went to religious schools. I wasn't that enthusiastic, by and large, but it sunk in.

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

When I look out [the window] at the big houses on either side of the road, it's obvious we've entered the rich side of town. Poor people don't post signs like NO TRESPASSING, PRIVATE DRIVE, PRIVATE PROPERTY, MONITORED BY CAMERA SURVEILLANCE. I should know because I've been poor my entire life, and the only person I know who ever posted a sign like these is my friend...and he actually stole the sign off a rich guy's yard.

I wish I had more time to visit schools.

I didn't apply to different schools. I wasn't really sure what I was going to do.

I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.

I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago.

I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

I think, unfortunately, many opinion leaders in Germany - including government officials, politicians, social service bureaucrats and so forth - they are in the private system, and they get paid the private insurance by their employer. So for them this is the best of two worlds: They have some more expensive and privileged access, but they do not have to pay for it themselves. This is a system which is both inefficient and unfair at the same time, but it is defended by those who profit from this system, and this includes many opinion leaders and many politicians.

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

My daughter is very happy doing philanthropy, especially in the schools.

My mother taught in the schools in Toronto Centre.

Our schools should be rewarding for all students.

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

I want to see more sports in schools.

I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.