Schools Quotes · Page 3

We should have better schools.

— Raheem DeVaughn

For digital natives, public schools are jails

— Bing Gordon

We shouldn't need riot police at schools.

— Noel Gallagher

I went to seven different elementary schools.

— Cordae

I want to see more sports in schools.

— Saina Nehwal

No, the czar did not want us in the schools.

— Mary Antin

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

— Martin Luther

Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.

— Jonathan Swift

Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls all had to change schools.

— Susan Ford

Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.

— John Dewey

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

— Mike Quigley

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

— Boris Johnson

“It is easy to give up than to endure. Always choose the latter.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I was in, like, nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger.

— Jessica Stroup

The schools of the country are its future in miniature.

— Tehyi Hsieh

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

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The purpose of schools should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students…

— Donalyn Miller

Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.

— John Leo

There will always be places in the world where good schools don't exist and good teachers don't want to go, not just…

— Sugata Mitra

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

— Jessie J

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

— Ami Bera

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

At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I…

— Jonathan Kozol

You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living…

— Anna Deavere Smith

I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on location, I just get the packets from…

— Bailee Madison

I run a program called Amer-I-Can. We've taught in prisons, schools, juvenile facilities and we teach in the community. We have the…

— Jim Brown

And, in the case of schools, or anything else, if you have something that is forcing you to do better than you…

— Craig Benson

I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing…

— Vincent Cassel

I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he'd buy…

— Pedro Pascal

It is vital that teachers can be paid more without having to leave the classroom. This will be particularly important to schools…

— Michael Gove

I wish I had more time to visit schools.

— Cornelia Funke

Schools teach ignorance.

— Eduardo Galeano

Schools should be safe.

— Grace VanderWaal

Charter schools are not a panacea.

— Bob Beckel

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

— Andy Hargreaves

Many more schools can be outstanding.

— Michael Gove

I'll continue to fight for our schools.

— Cary Kennedy

I always coached mostly the have-not schools.

— Kelvin Sampson