In School Quotes

It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

I had a very simple life growing up in the farm country outside of Perugia, and biscotti and warm milk with a tiny bit of coffee were a big part of my morning ritual before walking to school.

I really enjoy my privacy and being able to walk my son to school every morning and pick him up every afternoon.

I think family mealtime is really important. There's a lot of research that shows kids are going to do better in school and have more self-esteem if you can all sit down and eat together.

I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay.

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.

I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.

The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

I didn't get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

I don't need to see the old school to remember it and the teachers there. They changed the way that I've always looked at life and learning.

School systems now routinely have more administrators than classroom teachers. They have armies of counselors and therapists and nutritionists and 'multi-cultural learning facilitators.'

Watching movies was like going to school for me. It still is. You're always learning. Even if it's bad, you're learning what not to do.

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.

At school, I was brought up on revolting food - sausages, sausages and Spam - but at home, I had the most wonderful sponge puddings, which I don't indulge in very often now.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing.

Don't get me wrong: school is good and all, but school is way too slow for me. Like, super slow. So I didn't want to go. I wanted to learn on my own with real life experiences.

I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X, ' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

Every mom believes her kid's school doodles are amazing, and I'm no different.

It's one of my favorite seasons of the year: Back to School. As a kid, I loved fresh school supplies, new outfits, the change of seasons, and the chance to crack open a new textbook.

At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.

When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.

I never went to film school, so I never had the chance to be rejected.

All the lessons you learn in film school from the people you hate are always the ones that are important. The lessons you think are great and thankful for never end up meaning anything to you.

I wasn't really into school that much. I was in this building having to cram knowledge I didn't really care for. But on YouTube, I was able to create what I wanted and post it for people to watch.

I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!

I'm not a big pet fan. I remember the school used to have a hamster, and you used to take it home for a week at a time. I did that. I probably got bored of it within a day.

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm, and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.

Drama school is a pretty intense experience, and I think it changes who you are.

'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.

No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the fear. Let's enforce existing gun laws.

In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are 'ridiculously in charge, ' then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.

School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.

We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.

My most difficult class at Harvard Business School would have to be finance.

There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.

Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.

In medical school, you're taught to write in this convoluted, Latinate way. I knew the vocabulary as well as anyone, but I would write kidney instead of nephric. I insisted on using English.

You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.