School Quotes: Inspiring and Thought-Provoking Words on Education

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

Lillian Smith, Novelist

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison"

Victor Hugo, Author

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us"

Joseph Priestley, Scientist

"Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

"I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats"

Joe Davis, Celebrity

"If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told"

Bennie Thompson, Politician

"I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers"

Lance Burton, Entertainer

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards"

Mark Twain, Author

"One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success"

Ashley Montagu, Scientist

"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait"

A. Whitney Brown, Comedian

"When schools flourish, all flourishes"

Martin Luther, Professor

"Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"I think the Republicans are subverted by the fact that so many of their leaders send their kids to private schools, they don't really have the stomach for the fight"

Peter Brimelow, Journalist

"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off"

Roger McGough, Poet

"I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar"

Vivian Campbell, Musician

"You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot"

Al Jourgensen, Musician

"Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive"

Warren Farrell, Writer

"The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning"

Sofia Vergara, Model

"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 art. They don't teach you anything"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

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