Schools Quotes

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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. — Henry Fielding
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose… — Samuel Johnson
Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity. — Deborah Meier
The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values… — Lyndon B. Johnson
One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the… — John Taylor Gatto
Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and… — Seymour Papert
The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes;… — Alexis de Tocqueville
It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some, with whom the… — Unknown Author
Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated,… — Robert M. Pirsig
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded… — Mark Twain
I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving… — Martin Luther
I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their… — Seymour Papert
Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education… — Winston Churchill
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible. — Margaret Mead
It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my… — Claude Monet
Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories… — Ludwig von Mises
While vast sums of money are being siphoned off into hidden [military] coffers, Americas schools, hospitals and public services are facing cutbacks and closures. — Henry Waxman
Under our institutions the only way to perfect the Government is to perfect the individual citizen. It is necessary to reach the mind and soul… — Calvin Coolidge
We're never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air, the soil, the… — Elise M. Boulding
To invest successfully, you need not understand beta, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, option pricing or emerging markets. You may, in fact, be better off… — Warren Buffett
Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't… — Melinda Gates
Wisdom you don't get in colleges, schools, universities, nowhere. Where do you get it, the wisdom? You get it through your spirit, which gives you… — Nirmala Srivastava
There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the… — Ken Robinson
Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass… — Dennis Kucinich

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