Schools Quotes · Page 8

Comprehensive schools, as too few understand, have never been designed to improve education.

— Peter Hitchens

Wisdom is not facts and repetitions of truth repeated back in a pressurised situation such as in an exam hall.

— Alastair Arnott

It's really important that people know about it and the issue in schools because it happens every day to people and it…

— Anonymous

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community…

— Adam Rapp

Visit some of the country's best-performing schools, and you'll notice that many of them have one thing in common: discipline.

— Gavin Williamson

“Seems fitting, when you consider that both prisons and schools are known for serving sub-par food and having group exercise yards.”

— Anonymous

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

— Robert Duncan

Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be…

— Vincent Frank

People generally complain that they're overburdened by responsibilities, forgetting that they chose to have those responsibilities. No one makes you work like…

— Mark Barrowcliffe

Providing better computer science education in public schools to kids, and encouraging girls to participate, is the only way to rewrite stereotypes…

— Ryan Holmes

Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass…

— Jonathan Kozol

I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a…

— Camille Paglia

To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract…

— Adam Davidson

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the…

— Andrew Motion

Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it.…

— Ken Ham

Some people think that there aren't many Aboriginal actors around, and if there are, they're not that good. It's stupid. There's such…

— Deborah Mailman

I think laptops should be banned from schools. Until you can prove you can add up on your fingers or think independently…

— Joanna Lumley

Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!

— Bette Midler

You can be a lender who wants to compete and have a better product, but you just can't get to the students.…

— Andrew Cuomo

I'm all in favor of supporting fancy museums and elite schools, but face it: These aren't really charities as most people understand…

— Robert Reich

“People who enroll themselves in the schools of pride, eventually graduate with and high degree of fall. Failure employs “prides” scholars. Get…

— Israelmore Ayivor

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Schools are more than just places where students learn how to read and write - they're communities. They're like second families to…

— Miguel Cardona

If people grow things themselves, their children understand, then schools in the area know that this community's generating something with its own…

— Arthur Potts Dawson

Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so its probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.

— Zak Orth

OFSTED has made large cuts in the paperwork which schools are asked to provide and further steps to reduce the bureaucratic burden…

— Estelle Morris

The saddest thing in the world is when two people, who at one time knew everything about one another, act like strangers.

— Farahjayne809

It's a big deal to bring your family on the road, you know? I'd love to do it sometime, but you have…

— Shane Filan

I am most interested in the outcomes at schools and school districts and ensuring that all kids are prepared for college and…

— Michael Bennet

I think it's really important that the anti-bullying messages get into schools and become a staple in every school.

— Sherri Saum

There are many schools that are doing amazing work raising the life prospects of young people in some of our most deprived…

— Gavin Williamson

I'm glad the NCAA is pushing back the 3-point line a foot. I'm a big supporter of the 3-point shot; it's exciting.…

— Morgan Wootten

I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but…

— Randall Kennedy

“The stated purpose of schools is to educate the kids. But there is no external pressure to do this well.”

— Paul Graham

I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in…

— James Tobin

I don't need someone who thinks I'm perfect.. cause I'm not. I need someone who knows I'll make mistakes and still love…

— Farahjayne809

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

— Roddy Doyle

I come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive... I have fourteen classmates.

— Lupita Nyong'o

Like you can't have a car that can take the kids to schools on Friday and win the grand prix on Saturday,…

— Eric Betzig

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

— Philippe Petit