Schools Quotes
1443 Schools quotes by 1061 unique authors
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It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.
— Eminem
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I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
— Sally Field
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And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences.…
— Vince Flynn
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Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the…
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.
— Christopher Hitchens
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After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.
— Hulk Hogan
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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
— E. W. Howe
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After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.
— Kin Hubbard
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The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer…
— Ernest Istook
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Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more,…
— Naveen Jain
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As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make…
— Valerie Jarrett
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Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest…
— Wyclef Jean
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I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
— Boris Johnson
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If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from…
— Maynard James Keenan
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Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically…
— Jonathan Kozol
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I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling…
— Jonathan Kozol
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By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of…
— Jonathan Kozol
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As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than…
— Jonathan Kozol
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During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time…
— Jonathan Kozol
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Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of…
— Jonathan Kozol
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I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's…
— Jonathan Kozol
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If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to…
— Jonathan Kozol
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