School Quotes
9990 quotes by 5794 authors
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The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no…
— Anne Rice
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Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and…
— Pope John Paul II
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To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.
— Erich Fromm
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Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.
— Ivan Illich
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We live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between.
— Timothy Leary
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Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst…
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.
— Bertrand Russell
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
— Beverly Cleary
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Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
— Doug Larson
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When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
— Laozi
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Sign on a High School bulletin board in Dallas: Free every Monday through Friday-knowledge. Bring your own containers.
— Charles E. McKenzie
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Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community.
— Ross Perot
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You have to be reminded of a basic fact: intelligence belongs to the watching consciousness; memory belongs to the mind. Memory is one thing -…
— Rajneesh
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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
— Josh Billings
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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
— William Glasser
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I will set big goals for this country as president - some so large that the technology to reach them does not yet exist.""I will…
— Barack Obama
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We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun…
— John Conyers
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When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, and…
— Gustave Courbet
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