Schools Quotes

• We shouldn't need riot police at schools.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Police
  • Schools
  • Riot

• 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.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Students
  • Frustrations
  • Medicating

• You can’t bounce off the walls If there are no walls: outdoor schools make kids happier—and smarter

  

  David Sobel
  • Outdoor
  • Smarter
  • Bounce

• In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming almost generally true, it is spiritually unsafe to attend public schools. Look back over the history of education to the turn of the century and the beginning of the educational philosophies, pragmatism and humanism were the early ones, and they branched out into a number of other philosophies which have led us now into a circumstance where our schools are producing the problems that we face.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • History
  • Education
  • Philosophies

• All schools will end up using game metrics in the future.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Up
  • Future
  • Game

• Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality and real human needs.

  

  Arthur Evans
  • Character
  • Learning
  • Habits

• Unfortunately, the music programs are being stripped out of the schools these days. We have to change that.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Music
  • Programs
  • Stripped out

• 'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

  

  Richard Swift The Arcs
  • Fools
  • Foods
  • Condescend

• It is our hope the AP can serve as an anchor for increased rigor in our schools and reducing the achievement gap.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • Achievement
  • Schools
  • Gap

• I feel like everybody has a purpose. For me, I just want to be an example of what I talk about like speaking and what I preach about when I speak to schools and companies during the off-season.

  

  Will Compton
  • Purpose
  • Example
  • Companies

• Our staff had an unbelievable effort. We searched under every rock out there and found some real good players late. We went against some really good schools and we didn't shy away. We competed and had some great battles. We took some hits and we won some. The players coming in really feel like they're joining a program that has a chance to go to a BCS bowl and win a national championship.

  

  Bobby Petrino
  • Effort
  • Players
  • Championship

• Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • People
  • Education
  • Governments

• Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Kids
  • Schools

• Schools are launching pads, launching our kids into their futures. Unfortunately, a lot of what we teach now looks identical to what we taught 40, 50, or 60 years ago. There's a need for both timeless curriculum content and timely content. What seems to be falling by the wayside is timely content.

  

  Heidi Hayes Jacobs
  • Kids
  • Pads
  • Futures

• What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Democracy
  • Young

• In the past, many masters of karate have enjoyed long lives. Karate aids in developing the bones and muscles. It helps the digestion as well as the circulation. If karate should be introduced, beginning in the elementary schools, then we will produce many men each capable of defeating ten assailants.

  

  Anko Itosu
  • Schools
  • Karate
  • Defeating

• Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

  

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
  • Government
  • Failing
  • Drift

• In conversations and visits with friends from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe I am often struck by the gaps in our Western theological approaches. The most common texts used in evangelical schools have been written in the US, UK, and Australia. However, they miss some fundamental contextual issues.

  

  Ed McBain
  • Friends
  • Issues
  • Conversations

• It is cheering to note that Martin Luther (1524) did not see why schools should not be fun as well: "Now since the young must leap and jump, or have something to do, because they have a natural desire for it which should not be restrained (for it is not well to check them in everything) why should we not provide for them such schools, and lay before them such studies?

  

  Martin Luther
  • Fun
  • Provide
  • Studies

• If I were President, I would spend the money that is spent on wars every 20 years and spend it on giving people work. Let them build roads, bridges, buildings, schools.

  

  Liberace
  • Money
  • President
  • Schools

• It's crazy that in a country where schools are falling apart, we're spending $20 billion on nuclear weapons.

  

  Ben Cohen
  • Country
  • Schools
  • Nuclear Weapons

• They U.S. soldiers are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Children
  • Hope
  • Opportunity

• Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

  

  Benjamin Barber
  • Prove
  • Schools
  • Jail

• Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Philosophy
  • Schools
  • Lumber

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