Top 1200 Schools Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Obviously Massachusetts has one of the best public school systems in the country. But there are schools, like in Brockton, where kids are struggling because they just need more funding.
It's still the tradition for various football powerhouses to pay guarantees to schools with cream-puff teams to come on over to our place and submit to massacre.
Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.
Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.
In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.
There weren't any schools in my village, so I learnt to read and write from my mother. I played in the fields, sowing seeds, working with animals, jumping in the river, climbing trees.
The government is a very large constructor. They have schools, colleges, hospitals and courts, offices. We are trying to influence the public works department to adopt green buildings.
Music in our schools is considered to be an extra-curricular activity in which you teach your students a few patriotic songs and bhajans that children are not interested in.
The most important thing is to teach children to cook at schools. And not only to cook but to understand about where their food comes from.
I got kicked out of all Gwinnett schools 'cause I got in a fight, and I had to go to military school.
As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.
Players like Ronaldinho and Neymar started in futsal schools. Denilson loved playing too, looking for things to take onto the soccer pitch.
I know all the problems of the schools. They're rigid, they're bureaucratic, they've got a lot of problems. But it's such an important institution, and holds such promise.
I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.
I've felt like an outcast most of my life, being in multiple high schools and being a military child.
It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.
Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the State may demand.
Well, just as in the quality of public schools, there is massive disparity and the compensation given to the public school teachers.
I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.
I remember looking up wrestling schools at the age of 10, and I emailed so many people. The responses were that I had to be 16 or 18 to train, and that was a bummer.
It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties.
Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.
I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city.
I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.
A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.
My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.
As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.
Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.
Things were tough. Segregation was all around - in the schools, the buses, the restaurants, the theaters. But Dr. King worked hard for black people to have a fair share.
I jumped around to different schools so I always had to adapt - remain me but pull from different avenues.
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.
You can be a lender who wants to compete and have a better product, but you just can't get to the students. The schools are controlling the access to the students.
Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.
Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement.
I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I could audition for a lot of different schools.
I started playing with my dad, and then I started going to soccer schools in Sunderland and managed to get scouted from there.
If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.
Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?
I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.
Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.
To me, it's normal. We summered in Vermont, and me and my sister Ilyasah went to one of the top ten schools in the country [the Hackley School].
I don't like to have the federal government start pushing its weight deeper and deeper into our schools. Let the states and localities do that.
Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.
I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.
I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile radius from their home or school.
Schools in the future will be judged less because of the credentials that they bestow, and more because of the experiences that they offer.
I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.
If somehow every volunteer vanished tomorrow, so much of this country would come to a standstill: schools, hospitals and libraries. You can't name an institution that doesn't depend on volunteers.
My son was born right here in Florida; he went to public schools and went to the University of Florida and surprised me - I'll tell you that - when he went into the service.
We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.
Better teacher pay combined with scholarships in exchange for teaching in our public schools can help North Carolina attract and keep talented teachers.
I know I've had a charmed experience of being a parent, with healthy kids, a helpful partner, access to good day care, and great public schools.
When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.
We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
OFSTED has made large cuts in the paperwork which schools are asked to provide and further steps to reduce the bureaucratic burden will be introduced in September.
There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.
The money it would cost to buy another car could be [used to] build two schools. So it's an easy choice that makes me very happy.
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
