Schools Quotes · Page 9

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in…

— John Kricfalusi

We have been so pleased with the response to our unique schools in the Nashville area, and we are confident that other…

— Scott Thompson

There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'

— Robert Wilson

Schools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs…

— Peter Fraser

Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in…

— James Dyson

We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often…

— Bill McKibben

In primary schools, I set two main objectives - to cut infant class sizes and improve literacy and numeracy.

— David Blunkett

When I was 13 years old, I was dressing in a rap style. And then I changed schools, and the rap style…

— Louis Garrel

What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose…

— Robert Reich

The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I…

— Rainn Wilson

The problems in our educational system are indissociable from broader malignant trends in our society, and they can't be solved by lots…

— Howard Gardner

I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed…

— Seamus Heaney

“My dad once told me that his biggest challenge after returning from Vietnam had been coming to terms with his own callousness.…

— Tucker Elliot

Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but…

— Dennis Moore

My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I was born in Katmandu, lived there…

— Dichen Lachman

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions:…

— Robert Reich

Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation.

— Gerald Chertavian

I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes.…

— Brunello Cucinelli

Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to…

— Srikumar Rao

Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.

— John Dewey

Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what…

— Sugata Mitra

Difference between school & life: In School, you learn your lesson & then get tested. In Life, you get tested & then learn your lesson.

— Farahjayne809

As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools.

— James E. Rogers

I was the suburban kid of Scottish parents, and the idea of an acting career was so beyond my experience. I didn't…

— Lindsay Duncan

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other…

— John Warner

Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and…

— David Vitter

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

— Michael Bloomberg

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'

— Ray Bradbury

“If she understood the difference between referring to me as "the gay guy" and using my name, the knowledge was lost between…

— John Goode

My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food…

— Ben Elliot

I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.

— Freeman A. Hrabowski III

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

— Craig Benson

“Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.”

— Robert Arger

There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.

— Jeff Merkley

I've been in dance schools since I was four. I went to the Brit school. I did adverts and plays.

— Jessie J

In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.

— Peter O'Toole

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.

— Ami Bera

I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I could audition for…

— Josh Dallas

As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the…

— Eli Broad