School Quotes - page 4

From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural school house, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime. View quote
Anne McCaffrey
People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system. View quote
Max Hastings
I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night. View quote
Norman Wisdom
In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either. View quote
Neal Barnard
Throwing things horrified me. I suffered extreme, paralyzing anxiety when it came to anything remotely athletic. I wouldn't even run to catch the school bus because I knew I'd trip and then get teased for a year. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school. View quote
Peter De Vries
Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life? View quote
Paul Arden
By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life. View quote
Robert Bly
If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training. View quote
Robert Sternberg
But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you. (Robert Sternberg)
Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education! View quote
Roger Moore
High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love. View quote
Tom Perrotta
Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team. View quote
Phil Knight
Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should. View quote
Howard Gardner
I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education. View quote
Charlie Trotter
I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism. View quote
Shia LaBeouf
Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did. View quote
Eartha Kitt
My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful. (Bill Cosby)
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs. View quote
Albert Ellis
In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work. View quote
John Taylor Gatto
When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career. View quote
Amy Chua
So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school. View quote
Kevin Mitnick