Alphabet Quote by George Carlin

Ah! Then yours wasn't a really good school. Now at ours they had at the end of the bill. French, music, and washing...extra. -The…

— Alice In Wonderland

“The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to…

— Bill Bryson

“We had the schools we wanted, in a way. Parents did not tend to show up at schools demanding that their kids be assigned…

— Amanda Ripley

We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying,…

— Donna Shalala

We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government…

— Ronald Reagan

My very first school was a primary school in Surrey. I remember being taught to read by the traditional ABC, instead of look-say -…

— Prunella Scales

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and…

— John Kricfalusi

We knew we had the resources to send our kids to whatever school was best for them.

— Betsy DeVos

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their…

— Arne Duncan

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth…

— Jose Saramago

I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that.

— Wynton Marsalis

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?

— Seymour Sarason