Schools Quotes
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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.
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Get out of our schools God, get out of our textbooks God, get out of our government God, go away God, go away God, go away God, Katrina hits, God, where are you?
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Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.
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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.
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Religion can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than education can be reduced to what happens in schools or "health care" restricted to what doctors do to patients in clinics. The vast majority of healing and learning goes on among parents and children and families and friends, far from the portals of any school or hospital. The same is true for religion. It is going on around us all the time. Religion is larger and more pervasive than churches.
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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.
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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
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Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof, Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things; Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.
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We need to make sure teachers are in schools and that children have teachers.
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Well, the difference between 10th Planet and most other jiu jitsu schools is the obvious thing… we train exclusively no-gi.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich.
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I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools.
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Schools can ebb and flow. It can be phenomenal one day, and then you hit fractions, and it falls apart.
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I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.
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Why doesn't anyone care that the schools in Harlem have been unsuccessful for half a century? Why is this not a big deal? To me, it's a terrible deal.
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Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.
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It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.
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I didn't design schools for poor kids. I'm designing schools to be world-class.
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Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.
