Quotes about Schools

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It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the ho — Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation. — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Scienc — Walt Whitman, Complete Prose Works
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scri — Martin Luther
I spent most of my life trying to specialize myself. I went to theater school, film school, music school, mime school .. — Nuno Roque
Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectu — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Schools are a fountain of knowledge: some students come to drink , some to sip and others just to gargle. — Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
I wanted to pursue things, to know things, but I could not match the means of knowing that came naturally to me with the — Ta-Nehisi Coates
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not — Jean Piaget
To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools. — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. — B.F. Skinner
The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged stud — Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
Schoolmastering kept me busy by day and part of each night. I was an assistant housemaster, with a fine big room under t — Robertson Davies, Fifth Business
A single course of studies for all progressive schools is out of the question it would mean abandoning the fundamental p — John Dewey, Experience and Education
How insightful of Finland to devise a topic-based curriculum in their schools! This means that dicreet "subjects" that a — Suzy Davies
In fact, healthy students often redouble their resistance to teaching as they find themselves more comprehensively manip — Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
Schools are even less efficient in the arrangement of the circumstances which encourage the open-ended, exploratory use — Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
Skill teachers are made scarce by the belief in the value oflicenses. Certification constitutes a form of market manipul — Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
To a lot of children, school is currently mostly a place to learn what you aren’t any good at. — Danny Mekić