Schools Quotes

• It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Architecture
  • Minds
  • Labour

• The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools.

  

  Steve Stockman
  • Experiment
  • Schools
  • Disarming

• 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

• I don't like schools. And I mean, you have to call on all your friends to get them into their schools.

  

  Eydie Gorme
  • Friends
  • Schools

• 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

• It's very important to us, family, and the balance of family within the band is probably the most important. Metallica is important, but when you have your wife and your kids, and you need to maintain that and keep the peace, it's important to work around the schedule of the kids' schools.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Band

• 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

• It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads.

  

  Andy Borowitz
  • Money
  • Political
  • Spend

• 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

• Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.

  

  Joseph Lancaster
  • Female
  • Schools
  • Patronage

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

  

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

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

  

  Rainer Weiss
  • Future
  • Because
  • Students

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• We need to make sure teachers are in schools and that children have teachers.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Children
  • Teachers
  • Schools

• Yet, instead of loving our children more, we install metal detectors in our schools.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Children
  • Schools
  • Metal detectors

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

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

  

  George Andrews
  • Schools
  • Driven

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