Education Quote by Alek Wek

I was very into the truancy concept.

— Noah Centineo

It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.

— Jim Rohn

I was never told that the purpose of school was to get a job at the end of it. What was pushed on me…

— Nicola Walker

You got a death wish, Truant?' Which was the thing that scared me. 'Cause maybe I did.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

I was very fortunate to be able to go to school and university, because many people our age couldn't complete school. This gift of…

— Thabo Mbeki

Where I grew up, kids were quite bad and people wouldn't really have expected for me to go from there to where I am…

— Michail Antonio

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At…

— Dave Van Ronk

I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a…

— Bell Hooks

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their…

— Erin Gruwell

School, for me, was not a place where you went to be educated, but a place where you got away from your parents for…

— Angela Rayner

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

— P. J. O'Rourke

A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the…

— Richard Rodriguez