School Quotes

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What borders on the criminal is the poor teaching and neglect of those subjects that deal with the history of ideas and ideals, a knowledge… — John Mortimer Smith
I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race. — Johnny Gray
The technology itself is not transformative. It's the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative. — Unknown Author
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in… — Peter Cochrane
Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government. — David Boaz
I tell [medical students] that they are the luckiest persons on earth to be in medical school, and to forget all this worry about H.M.O.'s… — Joseph Murray
School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign finance, even simple… — Robert D. Putnam
In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union. As usual, the… — Richard J. Maybury
Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise… — Bob Lutz
The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual… — Walter Karp
Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of… — Unknown Author
Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had burst the narrow limits of… — John Joseph Griffin
My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa, so that after… — Wallace Carothers
[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack
[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the "school"… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has exerted such a… — Svante Arrhenius
If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly… — Christine de Pizan
In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility. — Johannes Tauler
The breathtaking inanity of the [school] Board's decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed through this trial. — John E. Jones III
Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever… — Eugenie Scott

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