Schools Quotes
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We're going to raise a lot of money to hopefully help rebuild some schools in the areas that have been devastated.
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This was a travesty, a violation of the public trust and it is something that Freddy Ferrer would not have permitted. That is money that could go into schools, into housing.
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I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.
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The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
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The policy says any new schools being built
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Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE.
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Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
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I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which means are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt.
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Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.
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In New York City, the idea that district schools advance equality is a myth.
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The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion.
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These are children we and the schools work with every day, but they're failing because they need one-on-one supervision, and we can give them that in this program.
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People want sex education out of the schools. They believe sex education causes promiscuity. Hey, I took algebra, but I never do math.
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All of the libraries and schools that were devastated in the hurricane are suffering for the books that they need to get to children and I am very proud to be apart of this to restore it.
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Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,and dismiss whatever insults your own soul... It is also not consistent with the reality of the soul to admit that there is anything in the known universe more divine than men and women. The master knows that he is unspeakably great and that all are unspeakably great. There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place.A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man,and every man shall be his own priest.
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I know all the problems of the schools. They're rigid, they're bureaucratic, they've got a lot of problems. But it's such an important institution, and holds such promise.
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Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.
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Very few schools meet the Title IX criteria on proportionality.
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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
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[Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes].
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I've seen reports of children having to change schools. Or children committing suicide. So, ah, yeah, the off-campus activities can have significant harm.
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If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.
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The college recruiting process shouldn't be about how many schools have interest in you or how many offers you get, it should be about you finding the right school.
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In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one doesn't have to look hard to find students who are starving themselves, cutting themselves, or medicating themselves, as well students who are taking out their frustrations on those who sit lower on the social food chain.
