School Quotes
9990 quotes by 5794 authors
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We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.
— Ronald Reagan
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It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have…
— Gordon Moore
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The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the…
— Gordon Moore
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In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I…
— Sydney Brenner
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Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
— Julian Bond
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None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.
— Marva Collins
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The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete and free way within the…
— John Dewey
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Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of…
— Thomas A. Edison
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We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are separated from nature…
— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling…
— E. M. Forster
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They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who's getting…
— Barney Frank
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So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from…
— Edith Hamilton
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Along with the fight to desegregate schools, we must desegregate the entire cultural statement of America, we must desegregate the minds of the American people…
— John Oliver Killens
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More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is…
— Jonathan Kozol
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Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and…
— A. Philip Randolph
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It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have…
— William Ruckelshaus
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To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship...is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but that…
— Geoffrey Sampson
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Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media distortions,…
— Sarah Schulman
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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
— B.F. Skinner
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Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of…
— Gloria Steinem
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