School Quotes

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

Stephen Covey
- Age
- Jobs
- Pressure
When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.

Bill Clinton
- Family
- School
- Community

The first generation of school reformers I talk about - nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher - they are true believers in their vision for public education. They have a missionary zeal. And this to me connects them a lot to folks today, whether it's education activist Campbell Brown or former D.C. public schools chancellor Michelle Rhee. It's a righteous sense, a reform push that's driven by a strong belief in a particular set of solutions.

Dana Goldstein
- Today
- Strong
- Vision
I think it's fairly unique to define the end goal of K-12 schooling as helping students become better thinkers, more creative thinkers, and to organize the whole school around creative and critical thinking.

Eva Moskowitz
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

Haruki Murakami
As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if you have free public education, you can't put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose.

Steve Martin
- Purpose
- Logic
- Defeat
My mom taught me how to sew when I was super young; I used to make clothes for my dolls. When I finally went to fashion design school in 1999, I really took to pattern making. Everyone in class was good at something; I was the person, if you need help with your patterns, you come to me and I would help you out.

Serena Williams
- Fashion
- Mom
- Design
I've only ever been in one band in my life, and that was in middle school.

Anderson East
- Life
- School
- Band