Schools Quotes
1443 Schools quotes by 1061 unique authors
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Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life-yet more jargon for 'God…
— Michael Shermer
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Well, it [evolution] is a theory, it is a scientific theory only, and it has in recent years been challenged in the world of science…
— Ronald Reagan
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Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.
— Martin Luther
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Music is about communication, creativity, and cooperation, and by studying music in schools, students have the opportunity to build on these skills, enrich their lives,…
— William J. Clinton
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Outreach appearances in the schools are usually part of my contracts, and I love doing them.
— Danielle de Niese
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Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.
— John Leo
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Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to think that the best of these schools…
— Paul Johnson
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If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation that reading makes…
— Michael Sandel
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My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our…
— Bryan Stevenson
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The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks…
— Sugata Mitra
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Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human…
— Sugata Mitra
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In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up.…
— Sugata Mitra
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The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after…
— Woody Harrelson
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As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important than algebra, no…
— Lynda Resnick
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every…
— Caity Lotz
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Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.
— Geoffrey Canada
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Attention is the fundamental instrument we use for learning, thinking, communicating, deciding, yet neither parents nor schools spend any time helping young people learn how…
— Howard Rheingold
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Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of…
— Irwin Redlener
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My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at it. They drove…
— Janine di Giovanni
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As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.
— Jarrett J. Krosoczka
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Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to…
— Joshua Prince-Ramus
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When I was little, we moved around a lot, actually. In second grade, I think I went to three different schools. We were in Nevada…
— Emily Kinney
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My education in the public schools of New York City between 1932 and 1944 was an excellent preparation for a life in science. Because of…
— Robert Fogel
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I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was…
— Louis Gossett, Jr.
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