Student council Quote by Rachel Renée Russell

“It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children.”

— John Taylor Gatto

“Transparency in the traditional school might destroy it.”

— Seth Godin

“Can we please drop the whole ‘school starts tomorrow’ talk? I’d like to live in denial for a little while longer.”

— Aileen Erin

“When school vacates, your life vacates alongside. What a tragedy! What a waste of life!”

— Sunday Adelaja

“School’s important at the moment. Unsexiest statement ever.”

— A.S. King

“You're a child, right? You have school? Is there anyway you could... reschedule school for another day?”

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

“Well, I figure if you're gonna screw things up by skipping school, the day better be worth it.”

— Katie Klein

“From that day on, the school was closed, and without school, life is like ashes.”

— Fabio Geda

“I cut our school time to the most important and let the kids have the rest of the time to play — which it…

— Pam Barnhill

“Yes, for education. An actual education, not finishing school—they’re going to squeeze me into corsets and bully me into silence.”

— Mackenzi Lee

“It's your last year, Grey," she says. "Make a difference for your school." I'd burn this place to the ground before I ever willingly…

— Courtney Summers