Schooling Quotes · Page 7

“Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.”

— Wendy Priesnitz

“In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life.…

— Derrick Jensen

I think of myself as an Indian comedian, but I've had British and American schooling. I always had this feeling of not…

— Vir Das

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big…

— Stephen Ambrose

There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the…

— Herbert Croly

“Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares…

— Plato

“In the race of life I would rather to be around the best and sink than to be around mediocrity and swim.”

— Xela Ffonrims

So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since…

— Thomas Keneally

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a…

— Nigel Short

Wherever the deaf have received an education the method by which it is imparted is the burning question of the day with…

— George Veditz

One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. Men came to…

— Spencer W. Kimball

There should be room in education for schooling to be more responsive to events, more focused on varying interpretations and more able…

— Michael Rosen

To avoid a split between what men consciously know because they are aware of having learned it by a specific job of…

— John Dewey

I’ve noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great…

— John Taylor Gatto

Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters…

— Alex Tabarrok

If we reduced the amount we spend on maintaining our nuclear weapons by a small fraction, we could reallocate those funds to…

— Ben Cohen

Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.

— Leon Botstein

Hearing Sonny Rollins live... that was really amazing. There were so many things that really blew me away at that time [of…

— Jon Gordon

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter,…

— John Woolman

It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actually quite conservative.

— Michael Leunig

I thought I was leaving elected office and politics in order to focus on schooling, but as you know, schooling turns out…

— Eva Moskowitz

Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a…

— Michael Jackson

The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of…

— Jacques Lacan

If you're looking for an adventure, an intellectual challenge, and a close-knit community of professionals, consider land surveying! It's not for everyone,…

— Mark Mason

Performing arts was something I was always part of. That was may be the only common thread that ran throughout my education,…

— Nimrat Kaur

I say all the time I think there should be some courses in the regular schooling system that isn't, even like about…

— Khloe Kardashian

Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about…

— Giambattista Valli

Looking back on a 30-year teaching career full of rewards and prizes, somehow I can't completely believe that I spent my time…

— John Taylor Gatto

Poverty is a big barrier if you are at the bottom layer of society, don't know where the next meal is coming…

— Amartya Sen

I don't suppose there's a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There's youth to the amount of…

— Charles Dickens

We must be trained to clarify minds, heal broken hearts, and create homes where sunshine will make an environment in which mental…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long as anyone can remember. Everyone, sooner…

— Michael Chabon

Everybody keeps calling for Excellence - excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out…

— Jacques Barzun

My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad,…

— Nandan Nilekani

Maybe it was the home tutoring, or the late start to formal schooling, or an overly cautious and protective upbringing, but in…

— Charles K. Kao

Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that…

— Ernest Istook

I went to university for a year, and I'm not one for schooling and have no enjoyment sitting in a classroom all…

— Travis Fimmel

If I grew up with a lot of money, where everything was just handed to me, I feel like those are the…

— Justin Bieber

What stands out to me in America was all the police vs. citizens turmoil. It's decades of bad policing, bad schooling, racism,…

— Henry Rollins