Schools Quotes · Page 3

The training of the schools should be extended to the heart as well as the mind and hand.

— Sheldon Jackson

Entrepreneurship is just one thing that needs to be in schools.

— Theo Paphitis

There is too much repression and suppression in schools.

— Fanny Jackson Coppin

Our schools are not geared toward building, preparing kids for the modern economy.

— Davis Guggenheim

I went to religious schools. I wasn't that enthusiastic, by and large, but it sunk in.

— Tim Rice

Our schools should be sanctuaries of learning, not nightmares of cruel and racist behavior.

— Letitia James

My mother taught in the schools in Toronto Centre.

— Annamie Paul

Celebrate your own biases, they are probably brilliantly messy.

— Alastair Arnott

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools.

— Mike Huckabee

“Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: "…

— Paul Gauguin

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to…

— Italo Calvino

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

— Alastair Arnott

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

— Adam Rapp

The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools.

— Steve Stockman

My son William is only nine but he's had four public schools so far, one in Cornwall, one when I was at…

— Neil Warnock

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

— Peter Hitchens

Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision…

— Chris Gabrieli

I went to big, broken, under-resourced public schools, but we had a real sense of community, because those were days in the…

— Deval Patrick

I always tend to write about outsiders. And what's been fun for me is, as I travel around and visit schools, is…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

The public schools tend to teach little kids from when they are very young about the whole universe without God and that…

— Ken Ham

I know what it's like to have a dream. I know what it's like to roll the dice and say, 'I'm going…

— Jim Parrack

Relative to most people I know, I am comfortable just about anywhere. I went to 20 schools before the 8th grade because…

— Clark Blaise

The SAT plays an important role in helping admissions officers around the country sort out students, well-deserving students from 20,000 high schools…

— Jonathan Grayer

Like it or not, I've come to appreciate soccer. Any kid can play, which fits with the inclusive agenda of progressive schools.…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now.

— Daniel Greenberg

At some high schools, you're the star player, and everything revolves around you.

— Sue Bird

Our schools play an important role in preparing our students to enter the workforce.

— Mike Parson

I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

— Anonymous

The nation that has the schools has the future.

— Otto von Bismarck

“School rewards with a certificate; nature rewards with enlightenment.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Competition among schools is always a great motivator.

— John Rowland

Schools today should be required to watch The Breakfast Club.

— Kesha Caldwell

I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.

— Boris Johnson

I get lobbied by governments, schools, nurses, charities. It's not all a bad thing.

— Mike Quigley

There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids.

— Mark Jackson

Our schools have made our state great, and we have to make our public schools the best they can be.

— Roy Cooper

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one…

— Samuel Johnson

Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money…

— Phil Daniels

We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we're not doing it with our schools.

— Al Franken

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

— Hannah Simone