Schools Quotes

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With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain. — Arabella Weir
Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for. — Mae West
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing… — Walt Whitman
The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new… — Simon Wiesenthal
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. — Oscar Wilde
President Obama and Secretary Duncan have made stronger teacher evaluation a key part of their education reform efforts. Under their signature plan, called 'Race to… — Juan Williams
The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive… — George Edward Woodberry
Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority. — Carter G. Woodson
I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform… — Steve Wozniak
Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences… — Mao Zedong
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. — Mao Zedong
There are hardly any apprenticeships in care; hardly any schools preparing teenagers for jobs in care; and few signs that politicians know what to do… — Geoff Mulgan
During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated… — Martin Filler
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. — David Mitchell
I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I… — J D Salinger
There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are… — Vladimir Nabokov
Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the… — Ron Paul
I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there.… — Oprah Winfrey
For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which… — W. Somerset Maugham
But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more… — C.S. Lewis
Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don't try to get… — C.S. Lewis
The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature… — Barack Obama
He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools. — C.S. Lewis
Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can… — Thomas Friedman
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing… — Stanley Kubrick

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