Schools Quotes

1443 Schools quotes by 1061 unique authors

Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and so far as… — George Thorndike Angell
What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to… — Albert Einstein
What is needed now are increased efforts to promote youth participation and commitment; more services aimed at youth; more parental involvement; more education and information,… — Carol Bellamy
In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries as an incentive… — Sheryl Crow
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of lives. If, on… — Jonathan Kozol
The most revolutionary thing anybody can do is to raise good, honest and generous children who will question the answers of people who say the… — Colman McCarthy
UNICEF is doing amazing things here. They're helping these groups of kids to be mine aware, and using drama and workshops to teach children in… — Ewan McGregor
Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to… — Alice Waters
Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant… — Martin Gardner
The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but hardly anywhere else.… — Lynn Steen
Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit. — Molly Ivins
In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially adorned projects... We are over… — Michael Fullan
The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they are… — Jean Piaget
Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need practice and application… — Elliott Erwitt
Schools must inquire deeper into their own practices, explore new ways to motivate their learners, make use of learning styles, introduce multiple intelligences, integrate learning,… — Michael Fullan
We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart schools... ' 'The… — David Perkins
It isn't that some gay will get some rights. It's that everyone else in our state will lose rights. For instance, parents will lose the… — Michele Bachmann
Our children will be forced to learn that homosexuality is normal and natural and that perhaps they should try it, and that'll be very soon… — Michele Bachmann
California's death penalty is ... an incredibly costly penalty, and the money would be better spent keeping kids in school, keeping teachers and counselors in… — Gil Garcetti
It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it... should it become a habit it quickly destroys both… — Robert Baden-Powell
Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often as I am… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use… — Walt Whitman
I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to… — Lee Iacocca
I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no… — Eleanor Roosevelt
There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world in science and… — Edward Condon

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