In School Quotes

We need schools to force kids to learn things they have no use for.

Wow, just imagine missing school on the day when they were learning blue. You'd spend the rest of your life wondering what color the sky is.

I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you have not been able to get me out of the theater.

My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.

I'm an old-school guy. I don't try to be too flashy.

This guy in high school tried to run me over with his dad’s SUV. Bad shoved the vehicle through a store window.” The memory brought a smile to my face.

When you say you don't think we should have public schools, they can't believe you mean that. You must mean that they should be smaller. But you can't really mean no public schools.

If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically.

Maths is totally done differently to what I was teached when I was at school.

Death from this life is just graduation from this grade. It's our release, our graduation, our promotion. School is out! We've finished our schooling in this grade and we pass on to the next grade.

American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.

Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netters art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.

I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure.

The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that career success is not important.

On the [Betsy] DeVos case, I agree that the gun - her gun position is kind of weird, kind of crazy, but I do think she does know about public schools.

It's a completely irrational decision to drop out of school.

It's hard for parents just to measure schools.

I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.

I went to Q-school knowing that I could play well and get through.

I know I never work in whatever gets called an office, e.g., a school office I use only for meeting students and storing books I know I'm not going to read anytime soon.

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

When we’re alone together, I’m the destination. When I’m here in her life at school, I’m the disruption.

everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.

I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own act together.

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

My school of thought is, anything goes, but I can't do that anymore.

The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.

I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile radius from their home or school.

I wouldn't say I was bullied per se, but I did get a lot of unwanted attention because I was musical and stood out. In school you don't want to stand out; you want to blend in.

I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.

I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.

My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.

So my son is very curious, which is fantastic. He loves school. So I don't have to encourage him too much, but I love to do it because I know it's meaningful and words are powerful.

I was interviewed by the Moscow Times and they said how's it feel to know that every Russian school child has to read your Teenage Survival Guide? I said slightly terrifying.

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

My dad said, 'In school, be a Catholic. At home, be a Hindu.' So we did both.

I cheated at school. I remember on one occasion I wrote some history dates in pen on my leg. So when there was a question like 'What year did that happen?', I'd lift my skirt up and have a look.

I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school.

I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'

I studied acting in school and then of course couldn't get an acting job.

Schools attempt to take credit for what occurs naturally, and blame others for the negative consequences of institutionalization.