School Quotes
9990 quotes by 5794 authors
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When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence…
— Michael Badnarik
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When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.
— Alfie Kohn
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Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could…
— Thomas Sowell
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Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he…
— Richard Mitchell
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Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.
— Alan Watts
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An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.
— C. V. Wedgwood
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In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess.
— Henny Youngman
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When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my…
— Milton Berle
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It was a tough school. The kids on the debating team took steroids!
— Milton Berle
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The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to school.
— Milton Berle
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I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in the modern education--show and tell. Show and Tell is a…
— Robert Orben
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And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity…
— Malala Yousafzai
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Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots.
— Robert M. Lindner
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
— Baruch Spinoza
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After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds…
— Horace Mann
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
— Clarence Darrow
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Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Corporations have neither bodies to kick, nor souls to damn.
— Andrew Jackson
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Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
— Erich Fromm
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