Quote by Rick Riordan

“When someone takes away your pens you realize quite how important education is.”

— Malala Yousafzai

“It never occurs to any of these balloons that someone smoking on school premises isn’t rebelling against the system, we’re not even thinking about…

— Lisa O'Donnell

“I’m in my junior year but I can’t take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the shrill bell…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

“The petty worries of the school room must not be carried to your home or boarding place.”

— Thomas E. Sanders

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a…

— Toni Morrison

“Let me guess: you were one of those kids who had a chair dedicated to you in detention in school." "Was not. They retired…

— Toni McGee Causey

“Then Mrs. confiscated my shiny glitter jar. Confiscate is the school word for yanked it right out of my hand.”

— Barbara Park

I'd walk into the school, smell that institutional smell of the tomato soup, peanut butter, disinfectant, and boys room. Pass the lunchroom, see the…

— Robert Klein

“Our teachers need a snow day. They look unusually pale. The men aren't shaving carefully and the women never remove their boots. They suffer…

— Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“On Being Afraid to Use the Elementary School Bathrooms to Defecate “Son, you're complaining to the wrong man. I can shit anywhere, at any…

— Justin Halpern

“Every student doffed his hat when the president approached, and bowed as he passed, or faced his wrath. Freshmen, meanwhile, acted as flunkies for…

— Alexander Rose

“Principal Principal stormed in yesterday, smelling pleasure. His mustache moved up and down, a radar sweep for all things unruly. An unseen hand turned…

— Laurie Halse Anderson