Schoolchildren Quotes

• We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Real
  • Nature
  • Know

• And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's takeoff. I know it is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Chance
  • Brave
  • Discovery

• Schoolchildren don’t normally learn this poem about Columbus’s second voyage to Hispaniola Haiti and the Dominican Republic today: “In fourteen hundred and ninety-five, sixteen hundred people he kidnapped alive.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Poem
  • Hispaniola
  • Columbus’s

• I have learned that I will not change the world, Jesus will do that. I can however, change the world for one person. I can change the world for fourteen little girls and for four hundred schoolchildren and for a sick and dying grandmother and for a malnourished, neglected, abused five-year old. And if one persons sees the love of Christ in me, it is worth every minute. In fact, it is worth spending my life for.

  

  Katie Davis
  • Change
  • Person
  • Grandmother

• What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Matter
  • Students
  • Universities

• The coercive effect of this policy is particularly pronounced in the school setting given the age and impressionability of schoolchildren, and their understanding that they are required to adhere to the norms set by their school, their teacher, and their fellow students.

  

  Alfred Goodwin
  • Schoolchildren
  • Adhere
  • Norms