Top 1200 Private Schools Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.

America must reduce its fiscal deficit, modernize its infrastructure, and improve its schools.

I believe amateur boxing training should be available in schools. Not for all, but for those who want to.

I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.

We need to look for ways to secure our schools, single-point of entrance.

We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook on life. Christian schools, Christian parents, and Christian pastors often have turned off young people at just this point. Because the schools, the pastors, and the parents did not make a distinction between technical excellence and content, the whole of much great art has been rejected with scorn and ridicule. Instead, if the artist's technical excellence is high, he is to be praised for this, even if we differ with his world view. Man must be treated fairly as man.

The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.

I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.

I was in like nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger.

The vast majority of students in this country will continue to attend public schools.

Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.

We don't have drama in public schools in France. I had never taking an acting class.

All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.

From my experience, I will rate Carmel Convent as one of the most prestigious schools in the world.

Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

If we are to transition to a new economy and to lead it, we must start by transforming our schools.

I'm a private person.

I was in, like, nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger.

Missourians know all too well the destruction tornadoes can bring to schools and communities.

I'm so secluded, and I'm so private.

We all struggle to find our place, and schools can be cruel to kids who aren't part of a pack.

Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such choices had evolved over the years into a principle: The best government is the one that gets out of the way. The attacks on the Taj and the Oberoi, in which executives and socialites died, had served as a blunt correction. The wealthy now saw that their security could not be requisitioned privately. They were dependent on the same public safety system that ill served the poor.

We are firm on bringing the Navodaya schools to T.N. and if need arises we will not hesitate to agitate.

For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity; for electricity, you need some trained workers; for trained workers, you need some schools; for schools you need some money; for money, you need some industry.

Schools and districts and unions are working together on some really innovative things.

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

I am private.

Our schools should be sanctuaries of learning, not nightmares of cruel and racist behavior.

What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.

Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls all had to change schools.

In New York City, the idea that district schools advance equality is a myth.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

One hundred and fifty years ago the vacant lands of the West were opened to private use. One hundred years ago the Congress passed the Homestead Act, probably the single greatest stimulus to national development ever enacted. Under the impetus of that Act and other laws, more than 1.1 billion acres of the original public main have been transferred to private and non-federal public ownership. The 768 million acres remaining in federal ownership are a valuable national asset.

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.

Unfortunately, the music programs are being stripped out of the schools these days. We have to change that.

Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.

I do hope in Ireland children in schools can experience the richness of chess and it's positive effects.

I expect there will be more schools of any kind that haven't even been invented yet.

I'm very private.

My upringing did influence me to a certain extent. I grew up going to private school, and we'd have these really cute uniforms, but you'd only have so much sway over how you could "customize" them. I would line my blazers, I would dart my skirts, I'd change the buttons, I would do anything I could to make them unique. And when I started designing, I found myself referencing those roots. I love a sort of preppy, gender-bender vibe. I wanted to incorporate the feel of menswear into the looks. That definitely comes from my private school days.

Michelle Obama kind of has two identities. In private, she is actually often much more vehement than her husband about Republican opposition. It was very hard to get sources to put it on the record, but they would describe the way she talked about Republicans and opposition in private. And, you know, her remarks were scorching. The level of heat that she can give off in these conversations is often much greater than what Barack Obama does.

Certain countries long ago succeeded where the U.S. has failed in commercializing their air traffic control systems, putting them in the hands of private or quasi-private operators able to raise capital, charge fees, and invest in growth, free of meddling by congressional pork barons. You want a drone-friendly air traffic control system? This is the place to start. Our FAA isn't blindly anti-drone but simply marooned in a system that still needs thousands of eyeballs gazing at radar terminals and out of cockpit windshields.

Our schools are not geared toward building, preparing kids for the modern economy.

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.

It is necessary and critical for states to have flexibility to determine how to identify and improve schools.

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

We have outstanding schools, world-class teaching and inspirational leadership across the country.

My acting has got to be natural. I didn't go to any drama schools. It's a gift from God.

Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.

But private lands development around the periphery of the parks - Grand Teton and Yellowstone - is a crucial issue because if those private lands are transformed from open pastures, meadow, forest land to suburbs, to little ranchettes, to shopping malls, to roads, to Starbucks - if those places are all settled for the benefit of humans, then the elk are not going to be able to migrate in and out of Yellowstone Park anymore. And if the elk can't migrate into the park, then that creates problems for the wolves, for the grizzlies, for a lot of other creatures.

My outlook was, 'You're not my moms; you can't tell me what to do.' I got expelled from about 20 schools.

I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.

There is a systemic problem in this country, where schools are often forcing parents to turn to Ritalin.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.