Schools Quotes · Page 9

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 organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started…

— Garry Kasparov

I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.

— Philippe Petit

There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture…

— Ken Robinson

Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick.

— Noreena Hertz

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

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

Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of…

— Alison Gopnik

My new passion is to get Internet education mandated in all schools. We've got to start teaching our kids how to be…

— Erik Estrada

Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being…

— Ken Ham

What's really important for us is that our home base is in L.A., and when we move to Toronto - where 'Suits'…

— Sarah Rafferty

I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking…

— Patricia McCormick

When I first went to college, I went to Western Michigan. I had been rejected by a bunch of schools for theater.…

— Alexander Koch

By including children with different learning abilities in mainstream and specialized schools, we can change attitudes and promote respect. By creating suitable…

— Ban Ki-moon

Far be it for the public schools to teach this, but the U.S.A. was founded on basic Judeo-Christian principles. Don't believe me…

— Bill O'Reilly

Schools in the future will be judged less because of the credentials that they bestow, and more because of the experiences that…

— Roger Schank

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

One of the most significant factors contributing to the chasm of educational opportunity is the way that schools are funded.

— Clint Smith

We all know that we are not perfect? So why do we act as if this is the case & hold ourselves…

— Alastair Arnott

In my Sunday School class there was a beautiful little girl with golden curls. I was smitten at once and still am.

— Harry S Truman

I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile…

— Dean Smith

I went to several different grade schools all over the West Coast. I got polio when I was 8 and spent eight…

— Dennis Washington

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

— Richard Dawkins

We need a proper balance between government spending on nursing homes and nursery schools - on the last six months of life…

— Thomas Friedman

Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down…

— Joshua Prince-Ramus

In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.

— Michael Welch

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

— Ninette de Valois

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

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

— Sherri Saum

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

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

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

— James Tobin

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

— Randall Kennedy

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