Schools Quotes

1443 Schools quotes by 1061 unique authors

What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto… — Paul Weyrich
It is essential to rear a generation at the very top of society that has all the qualities needed to lead and give the people… — Lee Kuan Yew
You’re talking about Rwanda or Bangladesh, or Cambodia, or the Philippines. They’ve got democracy, according to Freedom House. But have you got a civilised life… — Lee Kuan Yew
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone… — Nicholas Meyer
Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer. — Alphonso Jackson
I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images… — John Hench
Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation,… — Herbert M. Shelton
What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the sick habit. Both… — Herbert M. Shelton
Hiring people with diverse backgrounds brings in a flexibility of thought and openness to new ways of doing things, as opposed to hiring clones from… — Yvon Chouinard
We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. You see we've got a coach at… — Bobby Knight
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so… — Jerry Saltz
You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally… — Moses Mendelssohn
I don't like the idea of drama schools. They only perpetuate the myth that everyone can do what I do — Zach Braff
Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for… — John Taylor Gatto
The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. — John Taylor Gatto
As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more harmful… — Jonathan Kozol
Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and women made up… — Eleanor Smeal
If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be… — William Glasser
I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church. — J. Michael Straczynski
There is no place in contemporary Karate-do for different schools. Some instructors, I know, claim to have invented new and unusual kata, and so they… — Gichin Funakoshi
These principles with due regard to time and place, must, in accordance with Christian prudence, be applied to all schools, particularly in the most delicate… — Pope Pius XI
They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything. — Olive Schreiner
I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Pedagogy of the Oppressed resonated with progressive educators, already committed to a 'child-centered' rather than a 'teacher-directed' approach to classroom instruction. Freire's rejection of teaching… — Sol Stern
Today, we are closer to fulfilling America's promise of economic and social justice because we stand on the shoulders of giants like Dr. King, yet… — Barack Obama

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