Schools Quotes

• The food industry is spending almost $2 billion a year marketing directly to children and teens. We know that those ads lead to children demanding certain brands, and we know that food and drink marketing gets all of us to consume more calories. If we're going to address diet-related illnesses, talking about marketing to kids is a key step. There should be places like schools that are protected sanctuaries from commercialization and from advertising, especially when it comes to kids' health.

  

  Anna Lappe
  • Schools
  • Protected
  • Food Industry

• Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Education
  • Place
  • Teachers

• I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

  

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
  • City
  • Schools
  • Comprehensive

• In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Kids
  • Universities
  • K-12

• Wherever schools can be integrated through the busing method, and where it won't be just a, a terrible inconvenience, I think it ought to be done.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Schools
  • Method
  • Inconvenience

• Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick.

  

  Noreena Hertz
  • Poor
  • Schools
  • Philanthropists

• The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • Wish
  • Fashion
  • Schools

• I prefer really often to talk to high school students, mostly because I think they're the future for us.

  

  Rainer Weiss
  • Future
  • Students
  • Because

• Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.

  

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
  • Change
  • Schools
  • Governing

• Most other schools train no-gi part time, or maybe even half the time. We train no-gi all the time.

  

  Eddie Bravo
  • Train
  • Schools

• Profound question is how do you measure the non-skills component of what goes on in schools: values, curiosity, critical thinking, and so on. That's very tough. Maybe everything worthwhile can't be measured.

  

  Nicholas Lemann
  • Question
  • Values
  • Measure

• I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.

  

  George Shearing
  • Teacher
  • Blind
  • Schools

• In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Kids
  • America
  • Control

• Your attitude is more important than the events happening around you. Artists develop a syndrome taught in art schools. It is a malady titled, 'Artistic Temperament'... rudeness, excuses, slovenliness, laziness, clutter, addictions, non-commercial attitudes, un-professionalism... and a good reason for failure.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Failure
  • Attitude
  • Develop

• I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.

  

  Sargent Shriver
  • Community
  • Educational
  • Schools

• Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Movies
  • Creature
  • Testing

• We went against a lot of big-name schools. Our coaches were not shy about it. They went after the best players in their areas. We took some hits, but we won some.

  

  Bobby Petrino
  • Players
  • Coaches
  • Won

• Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

  

  Bob Herbert
  • Reality
  • Discrimination
  • Disparities

• It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Truth
  • Motherhood
  • Babysitters

• Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

  

  George Pelecanos
  • Poverty
  • Crime
  • Schools

• We shouldn’t be closing schools because the heat doesn’t work … If we are getting money from the state we should be using it. We need every penny we can get.

  

  Catherine E. Pugh
  • Money
  • State
  • Heat

• But I went to 10 different schools, so I didn’t make many friends. I’ve always been a bit of a loner. My anger has always been in me, mainly being bitter that I didn’t get a better education.

  

  Mark Shaw
  • Friends
  • Anger
  • Schools

• I've gone into prisons, I've gone into schools, I've gone into corporations, all over the world. It doesn't matter where you go, people are essentially the same. Our culture is different, but culture is nothing but group habit, culture is paradigm and when you get past the culture, people are essentially the same.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Culture
  • Habit
  • Corporations

• They put the Negroes in the schools, and now they've driven God out.

  

  George Andrews
  • Driven
  • Schools

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