Schools Quotes

1443 Schools quotes by 1061 unique authors

If we use these common standards as the foundation for better schools, we can give all kids a robust curriculum taught by well prepared, well… — Randi Weingarten
To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about… — Ken Robinson
How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I… — Winston Churchill
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book. — Peter Drucker
The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by… — Benjamin Rush
The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to… — Benjamin Rush
Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art. — Oscar Wilde
If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't… — Barack Obama
For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity,… — Ronald Reagan
Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public… — Thomas Jefferson
No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination. — Thomas Jefferson
Ashcroft went on to say that our way of life is being threatened by a group of radical religious fanatics who are armed and dangerous.… — Jay Leno
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least… — Charles Caleb Colton
To realize our true creative potential - in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities - we need to think differently about ourselves… — Ken Robinson
It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid...These schools should get rid of unionized… — Newt Gingrich
You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts. — Al McGuire
Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of… — Steve Kerr
Legalizing gay marriage is not about making it possible for gay people to become couples. It's about giving the Left the power to force anti-religious… — Orson Scott Card
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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