Schooling Quotes · Page 6

“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

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

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

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

— Ben Cohen

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

— John Woolman

There's not anything I can fix, change, make better its out to the world. I'd like to say that I like my…

— Shelby Lynne

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for…

— Ivan Illich

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half…

— Arthur C. Clarke

I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life…

— Anne Perry

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with…

— Steve Forbes

High-profile columnists should remember they are in a privileged position. Writing isn't a dreadfully specific skill - it's taught to millions via…

— Rob Manuel

The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I…

— Will Smith

This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now…

— John Taylor Gatto

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

I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and…

— Seymour Papert

Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by…

— John Taylor Gatto

What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!

— Grant Allen

“Children, in fact, spend more than fourteen thousand hours inside a school building over twelve years of schooling.”

— Terrence E. Deal

“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't…

— John Geddes

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Had I ever spent the day in our neighborhood public high school as an invisible woman while my children were still enrolled…

— Jeanne Ray

There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.

— Mikhail Botvinnik

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

— William Glasser

Our young people will learn more about the cult of militarism in this short and accurate book by Joel Andreas than they…

— Blase Bonpane

To live the practical aspect of life as part of our schooling is formidable, but to adopt living it as our ultimate…

— Samael Aun Weor

It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn…

— Michael Gove

What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all…

— Alex Tabarrok

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes…

— Michael Morpurgo

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

— Randy Travis

Because of the kind of music that I liked, and the different way that I dressed, it was kind of a perfect…

— Andy Biersack

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion…

— Albert Einstein

I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you…

— Muddy Waters

“If you feed a child, you strengthen him for a day; if you educate him, you strengthen him for a lifetime.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have…

— Hans Rosling