Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Votes: 8
Albert EinsteinI had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. Votes: 7
Woody AllenTry not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. Votes: 7
Albert EinsteinLearning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. Votes: 4
Abigail AdamsThe only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. Votes: 4
Carl RogersI'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up. Votes: 4
Kris AllenEducation is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. Votes: 4
Joseph StalinThe two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school. Votes: 2
Alice CooperIn the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. Votes: 2
Mark TwainSchool was a strange place where they tried to make you into something.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellI did well in school. I had lots of honors, so I thought I was quite smart.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellI've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryFilm school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.
Paul Thomas AndersonIn school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.
Richard Saul WurmanWhen I was a kid, my favorite after-school snack was hominy and pickled pigs feet.
Cassandra PetersonI leaned from my friends in school. I had lots of friends; yet I was very indrawn.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellI remember being intrigued by the idea of school-in-a-box, just-add-water-and-Sam.
Maggie StiefvaterExperience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSchool takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.
Martin Luther King, Jr.My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch.
Brandon Jay McLarenI went to the Rudolf Steiner School in New York, and you're not allowed to watch TV.
Jennifer AnistonMusicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school.
Ornette ColemanIf you don't want an American flag flying at your school, why do you live in the USA?
Ainsley EarhardtOver 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.
Angelina JolieThe church is always more than a school. But the church cannot be less than a school.
Jaroslav PelikanThey will not stop me, I will get my education, if it is in home, school or any place
Malala YousafzaiYou don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.
Candace BushnellI decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.
Dustin HoffmanI went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
Jackie DeShannonThe more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be.
Murray RothbardKids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.
Nicholas NegroponteIn high school, when I played football I got no respect. I shared a locker with a mop.
Rodney DangerfieldThe last time I saw African kids this excited, Madonna was at their school with a net.
Russell HowardCan I request another peer guide, One who isn't so happy to be at school at 7:30 a.m.?
Simone ElkelesI would ban sweets from school - but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much
Boris JohnsonI wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.
Condola RashadI was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls.
David Hyde PierceThe Iran-Iraq war began the same year that I went to primary school, at the age of six.
Hassan BlasimHigh School Is Life's Way of Giving You a Record Low to Judge the Rest of Your Life By)
Jenny LawsonWhen I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved
Loretta SwitThe job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.
Martin Luther King, Jr.People have to live by rules in the world. Why do we pretend in school that they don't?
Marva CollinsPraise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.
Marva CollinsI was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model
Rachael Leigh CookCome September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.
Roger RosenblattI have a practice of really not talking about the competition. I'm from the old school.
Ruqaiyyah Waris MaqsoodI have a practice of really not talking about the competition. I'm from the old school.
Rush LimbaughThis earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe.
Swami VivekanandaI don't think I would have become President if it were not for my school music program.
William J. ClintonI don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
Orson Scott CardOf course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks.
Ally CarterIt was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.
Blythe DannerMy parents instilled in me the value of learning and encouraged me to succeed in school.
Bruce BrownEvery high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.
Chuck PalahniukI'm proposing a plan to provide school choice to every disadvantaged student in America.
Donald TrumpI was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.
Francis Ford CoppolaThose years between drama school and getting onto the stand-up circuit were pretty lean.
Graham NortonThis man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!
Henny YoungmanA girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.
Honore de BalzacMost comedians weren't great athletes; that was the way they got noticed in high school.
Judd ApatowIf Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.
Mark McCormackI never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
Mick JaggerAs long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.
Robert Green IngersollMy cousin is gay, in school while other kids were dissecting frog, he was opening flies.
Rodney DangerfieldHairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.
Stephen KingI remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
Thomas A. EdisonWe of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war
Alexander the GreatI knew when I was in high school that I wanted a job where they'd applaud if I showed up.
Cheryl WheelerWhen you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.
Curtis SittenfeldI'm a very competitive person, whether it's school, baseball or even playing video games.
David PriceI do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.
Edouard VuillardWith all the classes they offer at school, how come they don't have one for common sense?
Gabriel IglesiasI didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school.
Jenna FischerI'm not embarrassed to be seen with younger women, except when I drop them off at school.
Jerry LawlerI always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.
Jimmy PageI find science really sexy and, at the time that I was a school kid, it certainly wasn't.
John NobleBeauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.
Libba BrayI think we have to be more proactive in the people we invite to come and speak in school.
Mark SchlisselI had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.
Michael RadyWhat school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.
Salman RushdieI still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.
Will FerrellIn school that used to happen a lot: they'd get me to sing and then they'd hate me for it.
Christina AguileraIt's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.
Chuck PalahniukI teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.
Drew LacheyYou will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me.
J. K. RowlingI went straight out of high school, and when I was 17, all I wanted to do was play guitar.
John PetrucciI'm glad I stayed in school four years. It matured me as a man and as a basketball player.
Josh HowardThe first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.
Mark TwainThat's why school was invented - to give your parents some peace and quiet during the day.
Michael ChabonI've always been interested in archaeology, I guess ever since junior high or high school.
Michelle StuartI think there was always something that everybody wishes they could relive in high school.
Neal H. MoritzId never heard of a hall pass until I came to America. It sounds like something at school.
Nicky WhelanChildren are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.
Robert FulghumI don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.
S. E. HintonBuffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?
Sarah VowellWrestling school was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. It just killed me.
Stacy KeiblerMama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.
Stevie WonderI went to school for marketing for one year before I dropped out of college to make music.
Theophilus LondonI love this cornbread so much, I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.
Tracy MorganHow I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.
Winston ChurchillI've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.
Agyness DeynI dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.
Bobby FlayBeing on the road and doing events is like getting kids ready for school for most families.
David WolfeThe most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.
Ivan IllichI learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper
Kevin NealonMaking movies is just as much of a game. They say Hollywood is like high school with money.
Kristen StewartThe University of Miami is not a campus with visible school spirit, just visible tan lines.
Lisa BirnbachThat's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.
Matthew McConaugheyI never really considered myself attractive, really. I was always kind of gangly in school.
Robert PattinsonIt's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
Sally RideI ain't afraid to tell the world that it don't take school stuff to help a fella play ball.
Shoeless Joe JacksonIt's hard to say 'No' and develop your moral fiber. That's why your school is so important.
Siobhan Fallon HoganI went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.
Warren ZevonBeing dead is one way to experience nothing, another is to attend some classes at my school.
Ashleigh BrilliantTerm, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.
C. S. LewisI fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.
Eric BanaTo put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.
Ernest L. BoyerMy interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
Gary McCordLife on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.
Henri Alain LiogierSuccess is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school.
Jim RohnI was in an a cappella group in school, so it particularly helped me keep my piano chops up.
John LegendSchool is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.
John UpdikeIt's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.
Sophia LorenIt was like one of those dreams at high school when everyone else has clothes on except you.
Tom FordI was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
Oscar RobertsonMay we now all rise and sing the eternal school hymn: "Attack. Attack. Attack Attack Attack!"
Danny BakerI mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.
Dave GrohlI'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.
David BowieThere were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.
E. L. KonigsburgIt seems the public in Europe has not yet learnt that most girls in India today go to school.
Hans RoslingToo many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.
John PiperSchool is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.
John Taylor GattoScience is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.
Neil deGrasse TysonI was always the one at school nobody fancied and I've only ever had one proper relationship.
Perrie EdwardsI moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.
Skylar GreyGoing to public school is like living in bubble, you have no concept of what other people do.
ThighpaulsandraSchool is so overwhelming - you can get lost in the idea that yes, you are going to be alone.
Tobias SegalThere's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.
Toby YoungI had grown up and gone to high school in New York, so I wanted to get out of the east coast.
Tod MachoverI'm a big fan of Tom Stoppard's work, and have been since I was in school where I studied him.
Adelaide ClemensI always felt like an outcast at school. I had good friends, but none that I truly related to.
Amber HeardStudents are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.
Andy HargreavesI started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
Barbra StreisandNo woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
Florence NightingaleIf Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society,
Jaden SmithI've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him.
Jane McGonigalWhy can't we just be nice? It's like, we grow up, and then we get right back into high school.
Jennifer LawrenceI will never forget what happened here tonight.people I went to school with will never forget.
Kevin CostnerFootball is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.
Kevin McCallSo many people I was at school with have all ended up being musicians and putting records out.
Kieran HebdenI was so shy at school that I hardly ever talked, so everybody thought I was kind of a hermit.
Kim BasingerMaybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)
Patricia BriggsThe sensory world is the school, without which the human being would never come to the spirit.
Rudolf SteinerI played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.
Oscar RobertsonI started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.
Bill WaltonI think a high school girl hitchhiking is stupid. It was dangerous then and it's dangerous now.
Bo DerekMy high school girlfriend would ask if I finally learned how to unbutton the back of a sweater!
Breckin MeyerGoing to school is an everyday process; it isn't something we accomplish and are all done with.
Bruce VentoI was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school,
Christian LouboutinI left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.
George MichaelSchool is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.
Karl G. MaeserI always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought Id regret it if I didnt act.
Kate AshfieldHigh school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
Kurt VonnegutI'm pretty much of the Shakespearean school. Dialogue is character. How we speak is who we are.
Leigh NewmanParents must refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of their children in school.
Peter BregginIn high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.
Rachel ZuckerHigh school " those are your prime suffering years. They don't get better suffering than that.
Steve CarellI just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.
Tom ClancyImagine if your kids had to carry a ladder to climb an apartheid wall to get to school everyday.
Omar SuleimanWhen I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music.
Big SeanMy parents have always been very supportive. I didnt go to school because my home was my school.
Clara MametI don't subscribe to that school of thought that leadership can be altogether defined by gender.
Dalia GrybauskaiteI was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program.
David BrooksI am going to provide school choice and put an end to common core and bring our education local.
Donald TrumpOh teacher, I need you like a little child, you got something in you to drive a school boy wild.
Elton JohnMy worst hairstyle was a bowl cut parted down the middle. It was the '90s. It was what you did. I had that from 4th grade until freshman year in high school. I'm glad the pictures exist. I had great hair back then. Votes: 1 Chris Evans
As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself. Votes: 1 John Gokongwei
I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about. Votes: 3 Sanford I. Weill
I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution. Votes: 1 Jacqueline Bisset
Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor. Votes: 3 Sara Paxton
Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness. Votes: 2 David Blunkett
I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school. Votes: 5 Mary-Kate Olsen
So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. Votes: 5 Desmond Dekker
Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor. Votes: 1 Sara Paxton
After joining as a youth trainee at 16 from school, in my first two or three years the club was on a financial downward spiral and there was none of the new sparkling kit and the sparkling conditions that the kids get now. Votes: 2 Colin Cooper
I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art? Votes: 5 John F. Kerry
At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates. Votes: 1 Joyce Meyer
In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February. Votes: -1 Natasha Trethewey
Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was, you know, every year another three, four, five students. Votes: 1 Milos Forman
Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. Votes: 3 Emilio Ambasz
I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training. Votes: 3 Josef Albers
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum. Votes: 1 Christopher Lasch
When you're going back to school, you want something fresh and new, and perfume is the best way to do that. Votes: 1 Bethany Mota
I was a huge David Letterman fan, even going back to when he was on NBC. My parents would only let me watch a half hour of television a day, so I would record Letterman the night before and then watch it when I came home from school. That's what made me want to do a T.V. show. Votes: 1 Trevor Moore
As a kid, I would always shop for my back-to-school clothes at department stores. I lived in a small town, and department stores were all we had access to. Votes: 1 Britt Robertson
People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair. Votes: 3 Tracie Thoms
My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set. Votes: 1 Rudolph A. Marcus
My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table. Votes: 1 Camille Guaty
Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows? Votes: 2 Nigel Farage
When I was young, before school, my father would wake me up and we would go running together. A love of being physical, being active and being outside was something he instilled in me. Votes: 1 Jake Gyllenhaal
In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to. Votes: 1 Barry Marshall
I did the whole struggling actor thing and lucked into being in the right place at the right time and getting involved in the first 'High School Musical.' Votes: 1 Drew Seeley
In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there. Votes: 1 Freddie Prinze
I work out every day. It's part of my life. That's one of the benefits of having kids in school full-time. Votes: 1 Kelly Ripa
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. Votes: 4 Rosa Luxemburg
Joe Frazier was the epitome of a champion. I mean, here is a guy who was total old school, blue collar, who would fight anybody. You know, he didn't tell you he was the best fighter pound for pound. Votes: 1 Sugar Ray Leonard
I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka. Votes: 2 Jonah Lomu
I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks. Votes: 1 J. Michael Straczynski
The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community. Votes: 3 Alex Ferguson
In high school I had some famously egregious fashion missteps. I was really out there in fashion, I think because I wanted attention. I would wear crazy patterns, skin-tight pants and giant platform shoes. Votes: 1 Busy Philipps
Hollyoaks' is where I learnt a lot of the craft, being in front of a camera six days a week. That's certainly an experience you don't get in drama school. It invites you to be comfortable in front of the camera. Votes: 1 Nico Mirallegro
I went to a Catholic School, and underneath my school uniform, I wore a metal shirt. Votes: 6 George Stroumboulopoulos
Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup. Votes: 0 Sherry Turkle
When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that's lost. It doesn't exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking. Votes: 1 Ansel Elgort
I often put any project I write in a different decade just to roll the thought around in my head. There's a thriller I've written that I think would be nice to set in the '70s or '80s, just to take cell phones away from the movie. There's nothing like the piercing ring of an old-school telephone to really scare an audience. Votes: 2 Joel Edgerton
To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum. Votes: 2 Rush Limbaugh
I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. Votes: 1 Charles Lamb
I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system. Votes: 2 William H. Gray
We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at. Votes: 4 John Mellencamp
I do not make decisions [as governor] based on what have I learned through my Bible studies, what have I learned in my religious classes in school. I'm a big believer in separation of church and state, and I think that's what . . . the law is. Votes: 3 Arnold Schwarzenegger
Most guys in high school wore clothes seen only by their classmates. I wore clothes seen by the world. Votes: 1 Justin Timberlake
I believe there should be breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack, all for free and for every child that goes to school. And all food that is good, clean and fair. Votes: 2 Alice Waters
You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today. Votes: 3 Oscar Robertson
Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know what's going to happen next. Votes: 2 Pete Carroll
The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story. Votes: 3 Ryan White
The bottom line is that it's the NFL, and there's going to be competition wherever you go. That's the way I look at it. I've had competition in high school. I've had competition in college, and that's part of the game. That's part of how you improve as a quarterback. Votes: 3 Scott Tolzien
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. Votes: 2 Ted Nelson
You know, I used to think I was a foodie, and then my wife went to culinary school and basically explained to me that I was just a guy that likes to eat. Votes: 4 Ty Burrell
I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself. Votes: 3 Olivia Wilde
My education in the public schools of New York City between 1932 and 1944 was an excellent preparation for a life in science. Because of the Depression, these schools were able to attract a remarkably talented and dedicated collection of teachers who encouraged their students to strive for the highest levels of accomplishment. Votes: 1 Robert Fogel
In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high. Votes: 4 Stephen Covey
I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I was Drama Club President every year, and then I auditioned for conservatory acting programs. Votes: 1 Jenn Proske
My dad didn't want me to go for drama in school, so I chose the closest thing to it and got a bachelors degree in Communications at the Manhattan College. Votes: 3 Daniella Alonso
My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation. Votes: 4 Lewis Black
High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream. Votes: 3 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools. Votes: 3 Adam Fletcher
In early high school years, I was pretty chubby, and I spent a lot of time on my computer, before it was cool to have a computer - because there was a time that was true. So that's where I developed my personality. Votes: 3 Rashida Jones
In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn't have power, didn't have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired. Votes: 1 Goodluck Jonathan
Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations. Votes: 1 Dan Stevens
I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated. Votes: 2 Spike Lee
My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education. Votes: 2 Ian Harding
When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect pitch and harmony and how to write music and all that. At that time, one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of a day and transfer that into musical notes. Votes: 3 Yoko Ono
Growing up in Augusta in such a protected and loving community is something that I really enjoy talking about. I love talking about - even though I grew up, of course, in the time of segregated schools: Brown vs. Board of Education came along after I was already in first grade. Votes: 3 Jessye Norman
Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition. Votes: 1 Jared Polis
I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School. Votes: 6 Jim Fowler
In middle school, I was boy crazy and it was the worst! I would always lose, too. I was more into the competition than the boy by the end of it! I just wanted to win! Votes: 1 Elizabeth Gillies
At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality. Votes: 2 James McGreevey
At the end of primary school, I went to secondary school. I paid $12 a term to go to school. Votes: 1 Joyce Banda
The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school. Votes: 2 Alice Cooper
Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up. Votes: 2 Pete Earley
I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way. Votes: 1 Brian Blessed
What people don't realize is that fame, whatever your worst experience in high school, when you were being bullied by those ten kids in high school, fame is that, but on a global scale, where you're being bullied by millions of people constantly. Votes: 4 Megan Fox
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. Votes: 2 Benjamin Franklin
I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me. Votes: 4 Pierce Brown
I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school. Votes: 2 Olivia Munn
NYU Film School was the way to learn about film, to be exposed to film, to go to repertory houses, to be exposed to New York and see films. I would go to the library and see one, two or three movies a day. Votes: 3 Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first. Votes: 2 Karl Lagerfeld
Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college. Votes: 3 Chance The Rapper
I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me. Votes: 1 Demetri Martin
You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.' Votes: 4 Abe Lemons
I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school. Votes: 6 Mary Wesley
An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again. Votes: 6 John C. Reilly
Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love. Votes: 2 Eric Kandel
I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels. Votes: 1 Lauren Willig
I ended up reading comics and just started drawing at a very young age. By high school, I was putting together longer stories. In college, I started doing strips for the newspaper and doing mini-comics. It sort of grew in scope and scale over time. Votes: 1 Tim Fish
We've read scripts, and I think right now we are just focusing in on school. Votes: 3 Mary-Kate Olsen
The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image. Votes: 1 Bill Viola
I did my fist show, 'Godspell', in my freshman year of high school. Votes: 2 James Snyder
Britannia High' is this new, edgy series which follows the lives of seven kids, their friendships, and the troubles they go through at stage school. Votes: 1 Mitch Hewer
I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!' Votes: 1 Mae Whitman
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. Votes: 3 Muhammad Ali
Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of. Votes: 3 Will Shields
I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose. Votes: 3 James Patterson
Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high school over and over again in a small town ---- anymore than they would hurt the physically disabled or the mentally challenged. My vampires possess gravitas. They can afford to be merciful. Votes: 2 Anne Rice
I don't want to get too detailed into it, but when you're a good high school running back, you can almost be whatever type of runner you want to be. If you're a good size and a good athlete, you can be whatever type of runner you want. Votes: 2 Barry Sanders
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. Votes: 6 Evelyn Waugh
It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business. Votes: 2 Mark Udall
The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn't allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability. Votes: 4 Lou Holtz
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning. Votes: 2 Chuck Grassley
So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened. Votes: 4 Ted Nelson
Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence. Votes: 4 Joe Baca
I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in the stock room of Ralph Lauren. I graduated to salesperson at Ralph Lauren, which was a big deal to me. I've been a P.A. I've been a stand-in. I've been an assistant's assistant. Votes: 2 Allison Williams
I graduated law school nine months pregnant and didn't take a job. Votes: 1 Elizabeth Warren
I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn't not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award. Votes: 6 Richard Carmona
The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years. Votes: 1 Dennis Washington
Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations. Votes: 1 David Lee
I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it. Votes: 3 Jill Scott
I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation. Votes: 3 Tommy Caldwell
My dad is quite possibly the biggest Giants fan in the world. I believe he wore a Phil Simms jersey to my high school and college graduations. Votes: 1 Bobby Moynihan
High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability. Votes: 1 Ben Bernanke
My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School. Votes: 4 Edmund Hillary
I played sports growing up in high school. Votes: 2 Erin Heatherton
People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair. Votes: 2 Tracie Thoms
We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them. Votes: 2 Robert Kiyosaki
In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms. Votes: 2 Jane Harman
I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down. Votes: 0 Zac Efron
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Votes: 4 Kurt Vonnegut
My biggest advice for high school girls is to not take yourself so seriously. Votes: 1 Jillian Rose Reed
When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?' Votes: 4 Wynton Marsalis
I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life. Votes: 1 Alanis Morissette
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Votes: 2 Kurt Vonnegut
Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age. Votes: 4 Adora Svitak
The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper. Votes: 5 Ron White
Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class. Votes: 3 Phil Lesh
I'm a skinny, geeky, high school dropout - it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You'll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team 'cause he's on steroids and he's gonna get fat. Votes: 2 Dave Grohl
I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school. Votes: 4 Josh Hutcherson
When you think of the former high school football star, you think 6-foot-2, white, meathead as the model for that kind of character. Since I'm not 6-foot-2 or white, I just thought about what I could bring to it. I thought about Smash Williams from 'Friday Night Lights,' like the cocky quarterback, and played around with that. Votes: 2 Donald Glover
The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power. Votes: 4 Sloane Crosley
I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation. Votes: 5 Maureen Forrester
I swam a little bit in high school but I wasn't a jock. Votes: 1 Joel Silver
Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn't seem like an interesting story, then that's the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly. Votes: 3 William T. Vollmann
When I got out of high school, I thought, 'I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.' More than 40 years later, I figure it's finally time to write about this crazy journey that's taken me around the world and back. Votes: 1 Gregg Allman
I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition. Votes: 2 Jim Brown
I used to sit in bed at night and flip through design-school catalogs. I found out that Parsons accepted a small number of high school juniors, so I applied my sophomore year and got in. Votes: 3 Chris Benz
I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life. Votes: 4 Vanessa Minnillo
We've got to go to the people with bold ideas and candidates of conviction - we've got to be hotter than high school love. Votes: 4 Jim Hightower
I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie for Disney called 'Mash-Up', about a high school marching band. Votes: 3 Steve Antin
It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old. Votes: 2 Roger Ebert
I had died and woken up in High School Musical Votes: 5 Jamie McGuire
High school for me was not all that fun. I think it's a lot more fun after when you realize that high school ends, and everything that's important at that time is sort of not important if people don't like your jeans or whatever. It doesn't matter. Votes: 1 Leighton Meester
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. Votes: 1 E. W. Howe
I can't put this delicately - everyone goes to their high school reunion wanting to see who they 'beat.' Votes: 6 Megyn Price
I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it. Votes: 2 E. O. Wilson
Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college. Votes: 4 Ruben Hinojosa
In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.' Votes: 2 Jimmy Carter
I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community. Votes: 3 Nate Parker
I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things. Votes: 5 Guillermo Diaz
My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.' Votes: 4 Seth Rogen
My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?' Votes: 2 Peyton Manning
The art of Montessori, which simply means finding the best way to help the child himself become what he was meant to become from the first moment of conception, is an art that joins home and school. That means parent and teacher supporting one another in their responsibility to the life of the child. Votes: 3 Maria Montessori
The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world. Votes: 1 Jules Shear
Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids. Votes: 1 Steven Tyler
The importance of 'Dream School' is monumental. Helping to inspire these students to reach their potential is personally gratifying. Votes: 2 Curtis Jackson
And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children. Votes: 1 Margaret Spellings
My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs. Votes: 1 Eric Allin Cornell
I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow. Votes: 3 Kara Hayward
I don't think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it's no longer a secret. Votes: 4 Jim Coleman
I didn't figure out the makeup or cute hair or clothes until oh, maybe my junior year of high school. Votes: 2 Catherine Bell
If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it. Votes: 3 Stephen Leacock
I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings. Votes: 3 Jenny Han
There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball. Votes: 3 Nora Roberts
I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true. Votes: 1 Jim Otto
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. Votes: 3 Jack Nicholson
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. Votes: 2 Karl von Frisch
My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York. Votes: 2 Debra Wilson
If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause. Votes: 6 Charles Morgan
I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first. Votes: 1 Karl Lagerfeld
In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms. Votes: 1 Jane Harman
Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam. Votes: 3 Robert Kiyosaki
The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection. Votes: 0 Pope John XXIII
My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out of my city. I went to Medford High School, but even in grade school and junior high, I fantasized about leaving. Votes: 1 Paul Theroux
I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck. Votes: 3 Ernest Borgnine
I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as long as they leave me alone.' Well, guess what, when you don't care what the government does, it does not leave you alone. Votes: 1 Louie Gohmert
My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out of my city. I went to Medford High School, but even in grade school and junior high, I fantasized about leaving. Votes: 1 Paul Theroux
If my children call me during the day and leave a message, I return those calls first, not last. Votes: 1 Dave Checketts
Having to go back and forth between school and filming would sometimes be frustrating because I loved school. It was my chance to be around other people my age. But when you're leaving school to go to a set that's filled with kids your age, then it's fine. Votes: 4 Alexa Vega
I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as long as they leave me alone.' Well, guess what, when you don't care what the government does, it does not leave you alone. Votes: 1 Louie Gohmert
As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces. Votes: 3 Jarrett J. Krosoczka
In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom. Votes: 2 Mandy Moore
I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years. Votes: 1 Linda Cardellini
A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss. Votes: 6 Tina Fey
I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984. Votes: 2 Samuel Wilson
Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love. Votes: 1 Eric Kandel
When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school. Votes: 4 Jensen Ackles
When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school - but I'd take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes. Votes: 1 William Bell
The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school. Votes: 4 Nick Nolte
You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much. Votes: 1 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I had managers approaching me in high school asking me if I wanted to act professionally, but to me, having to miss school to do that meant missing time with my friends, which was completely unacceptable. Votes: 1 Chris Lowell
I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school. Votes: 1 Michael Steger
When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?' Votes: 2 Natalie Portman
When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change. Votes: 1 Robert Rodriguez
I never had a ton of male friends and it's always been something that's really interesting to me, what brings guys together? The bonding. 'Old School' is a good example of that. And even 'Starsky' and even 'Road Trip.' Votes: 5 Todd Phillips
Well, hello, Peter," said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. "Long time, no see. Votes: 3 J. K. Rowling
I'm really into old school music when hip-hop first came out with Common, A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, and Run DMC. I'm really into that! Hip-hop these days isn't the same and doesn't have the same sound anymore. I'd rather listen to the old school hip-hop. Votes: 4 Raven Goodwin
There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent. Votes: 1 Sharon Stone
Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important. Votes: 3 J. C. Watts
As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. Votes: 6 Cokie Roberts
If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States. Votes: 1 Tim Walberg
If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin. Votes: 2 Madeleine M. Kunin
My parents decided - because they were not going to teach us anything Jewish at home - to send both me and my sister to a Jewish primary school. So I went to Kerem Primary School in Hampstead Garden Suburb. But, for me, that school really didn't work that well. Votes: 4 Noreena Hertz
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate. Votes: 3 Ulysses S. Grant
Ignoring is what you are supposed to do with bullies, so they get bored and leave you alone. But the problem in school is that they don't get bored, because whatever else there is to do is more boring still. Votes: 3 Paul Murray
I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability. Votes: 2 Ann Bancroft
The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids. Votes: 1 P. J. O'Rourke
The time has come to end social promotion in our schools. Votes: 1 Roy Barnes
Study after study affirms what I saw in the classroom every day as superintendent of Denver Public Schools: Nothing makes a bigger difference for student learning than great teaching. Votes: 4 Michael Bennet
I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education. Votes: 4 Rory Bremner
I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided. Votes: 1 Mark Foley
I was home-schooled. My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. Votes: 4 Britt Robertson
Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent. Votes: 1 Russell Means
The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places ... It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world. Votes: 3 William Torrey Harris
I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless. Votes: 4 Kevin O'Leary
My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition. Votes: 1 Benedict Cumberbatch
Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know. Votes: 1 Christopher Hitchens
Looking back, I didn't realize until years later what a huge influence Red Skelton was in my stage demeanor with the band. I mean, I always liked things that were funny, and later I realized that having a sly sense of humor was a way to get attention and even respect in school. Votes: 3 Jello Biafra
I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility. Votes: 1 Ernest Istook
Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important. Votes: 1 J. C. Watts
Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all. Votes: 1 Ed Markey
And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful. Votes: 1 Warren Beatty
All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every bit as good as that of children whose mothers do not work. Votes: 3 Sandra Scarr
I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career. Votes: 4 Uzo Aduba
Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor. Votes: 4 Sara Paxton
While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure. Votes: 2 Ruben Hinojosa
My biggest advice for high school girls is to not take yourself so seriously. Votes: 1 Jillian Rose Reed
I tried to lose myself in school and friends as best as I was able, trying to put Dorian's world out of my mind. But that was pretty much impossible with Clarrisa's constant, homicidally cheerful presence, which was, I supposed, something like making friends with a live grenade. Votes: 3 V.M. Black
I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play. Votes: 3 Li Na
I graduated law school nine months pregnant and didn't take a job. Votes: 2 Elizabeth Warren
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college. Votes: 2 Lillian Smith
I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things. Votes: 4 Guy Davenport
We had this thing at Stanford called the 'Campus Loop,' and then we had another run called 'The Dish,' and you'd run up to this giant satellite dish, which was probably extremely unhealthy. I would do those two runs, and I just found it so therapeutic. My girlfriends and I would have these great conversations about guys and school and life. Votes: 3 Summer Sanders
I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route. Votes: 4 Benedict Cumberbatch
I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London. Votes: 4 Richard O'Brien
Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night. Votes: 1 Pico Iyer
During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me. Votes: 1 Scott Stossel
And I remember as a second or third grader having some autonomy to go to the store if I felt like it, walk home, take my time, kick the can. We were on our own schedule after school, so that was cool. Votes: 1 Stone Gossard
I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques. Votes: 3 Herb Ritts
I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me. Votes: 3 Iyanla Vanzant
I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more. Votes: 2 Rita Dove
Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher. Votes: 1 Mike Piazza
I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins. Votes: 4 Quincy Jones
Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows? Votes: 2 Nigel Farage
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor. Votes: 2 Dana Spiotta
I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper. Votes: 2 Kevin Nealon
It was hard for me, being in school. And nobody was there to tell me how important it was. Votes: 1 Bill Cosby
The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory. Votes: 3 Truman Capote
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. Votes: 8 Mark Twain
But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions. Votes: 3 Mark Kennedy
Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals. Votes: 1 Stephen Kinzer
Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals. Votes: 1 Stephen Kinzer
The Assembly passed a budget that makes the right choices for young students across the state by helping schools avoid cutting essential educational programs, laying off teachers and increasing local property taxes. Without a sound investment in our children and their education, New York would face crumbling school buildings, overcrowded classrooms, and few opportunities to excel. Votes: 5 Jose Peralta
In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school. Votes: 8 Kenny Marchant
In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school. Votes: 4 Kenny Marchant
The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children. Votes: 2 Juan Williams
I was lucky enough to have one of the first high school classes in the country. Votes: 3 Walter Cronkite
I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked. Votes: 3 P. J. O'Rourke
We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools. Votes: 4 David Selby
I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school. Votes: 3 Josie Loren
When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently. Votes: 3 Alan Dershowitz
Unexamined wallpaper is classroom practices and institutional policies that are so entrenched in school culture or a teacher's paradigm that their ability to affect student learning is never probed. Votes: 3 Richard Elmore
There will soon be streams of data coming from all manner of products - appliances, clothing, sporting goods, you name it. Wouldn't you rather live in a world where you can export the data from your son's football helmet to a new app that monitors force and impact against a cohort of high school players around the country? Votes: 1 John Battelle
I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life. Votes: 2 Cara Delevingne
I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography. Votes: 1 Yvonne Strahovski
America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt. Votes: 1 Kevin McCarthy
If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy. Votes: 2 Michael Phelps
As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive. Votes: 3 Bill O'Reilly
Some of the school districts in my congressional district are looking at resource officers and how they secure that environment. Votes: 3 Marsha Blackburn
We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end. Votes: 2 Jeb Bush
I was always keen to get involved in the school drama productions and was a member of the school choir. I was lucky to have attended schools that took music and drama very seriously and the teachers were just brilliant. Votes: 4 Bronagh Gallagher
Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent. Votes: 1 Russell Means
Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness. Votes: 4 Ezekiel Emanuel
My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School. Votes: 1 Thomas Peterffy
A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result. Votes: 3 Tom Perrotta
No individual has done more to help me pursue a career in science than my wife of forty-five years. I met Enid Cassandra Morgan during the election campaign of 1948 when she was a Sunday school teacher, a leader of the youth organizations of St. Phillips Episcopal Church, and the head of Harlem Youth for the election of Henry Wallace. Votes: 1 Robert Fogel
Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills. Votes: 1 Gillian Armstrong
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education. Votes: 2 Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment. Votes: 4 Karlie Kloss
From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence. Votes: 1 Paul Tsongas
I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would. Votes: 4 Mary Leakey
I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way. Votes: 1 Brian Blessed
I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present. Votes: 3 Hugh Jackman
I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom. Votes: 4 Cameron Monaghan
I hate the fact that public schools like the one I went to have fantastic sports facilities, and state schools don't. That's not fair. That's outrageous. Votes: 0 Clare Balding
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. Votes: 3 Estelle Morris
Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever. Votes: 3 Charlie Sheen
I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great. Votes: 1 Patrick Ewing
I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!' Votes: 4 Sage Stallone
Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary Resurrections,' I had no predetermined agenda. When I met with the children, I was not in pursuit of any line of thinking. In our conversations, I let them lead me where they wanted to go. Votes: 3 Jonathan Kozol
The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time. Votes: 3 Rick Perry
When I'm working I wear so much makeup, and when I'm out with my friends I wear makeup, so sometimes at school I'm just like, 'Today is not much of a makeup day - foundation, chapstick - done.' Votes: 2 Laura Marano
My school friends are really understanding and still want to hang out with me. Ever since I was in sixth grade, I was at the gym every day to work out while my friends were getting their nails done or going to the mall. I used to feel left out, but I don't anymore. Votes: 3 Aly Raisman
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. Votes: 1 Muhammad Ali
Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character. Votes: 1 Jacqueline McKenzie
If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated. Votes: 4 Martin O'Malley
I wouldn't rule out L.A. life, but I love England. I have a lovely house and nice garden, I walk my kids to school - family is most important to me. Votes: 2 Stephen Graham
In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting. Votes: 2 Illeana Douglas
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. Votes: 2 Evelyn Waugh
I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools. Votes: 1 Sally Kirkland
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. Votes: 3 Ronald Reagan
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. Votes: 7 Martha Reeves
I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I asked my guidance counselor what Ivy League schools were. And I applied to Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth - that was it. My guidance counselor told me I wouldn't get into an Ivy League school. So as my act of resistance, that's all I applied to. Votes: 1 Winona LaDuke
We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them. Votes: 2 Robert Kiyosaki
It's like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for 'Harry Potter'. Votes: 1 Robbie Coltraine
I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks. Votes: 4 Trevor Dunn
I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks. Votes: 3 Trevor Dunn
To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights. Votes: 3 Hans Rosling
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. Votes: 3 Ellen Glasgow
I used to spend all my school holidays cycling around, so all this training has made me feel like a kid again. Votes: 3 Denise Van Outen
I was a homecoming king in high school! I was involved. I was a good member of the community, I thought. Votes: 1 Kevin Connolly
I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours. Votes: 4 Essence Atkins
Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America. Votes: 1 Dean Smith
It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that is why meaningful student involvement is vital to school improvement. Votes: 3 Adam Fletcher
I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's. Votes: 1 Lakshmi Mittal
I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language. Votes: 1 Eiza Gonzalez
The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration. Votes: 3 Tom Joyner
At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me. Votes: 1 Barnaby C. Keeney
I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over. Votes: 3 Henry Miller
My younger brother runs a guesthouse, and my sister is a janitor. I have not given them money because they earn their own money. I pay for their children's school fees. Votes: 1 Chen Guangbiao
All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road. Votes: 1 Luther Vandross
As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th. Votes: 2 Bo Jackson
I went through seventh grade in private school. I went to private school from kindergarten to seventh grade. Votes: 1 Stacie Orrico
The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it. Votes: 2 Zhang Ziyi
I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining. Votes: 3 Ed Miliband
Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education. Votes: 1 Patricia A. Woertz
Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library. Votes: 4 Katherine Paterson
Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library. Votes: 8 Katherine Paterson
All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely. Votes: 6 Roald Dahl
You can always keep learning with acting, because the school is life and yourself and your friends and your relationships. I'm fascinated by it! It's infinito! Votes: 1 Penelope Cruz
I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose. Votes: 1 James Patterson
I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography. Votes: 1 Yvonne Strahovski
My dad is an ob-gyn - he's retired now - and he wanted to come to the States to make a better life, for opportunity. My mom said that, on the plane ride here, I did not want to speak a word of English - I spoke Tagalog. And then, after the first day of school, I didn't want to speak anything but English. Votes: 1 Reggie Lee
When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day. Votes: 5 George McGovern
Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger. Votes: 4 Tom Colicchio
Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers. Votes: 2 Clayton Christensen
I've never let my school interfere with my education. Votes: 1 Mark Twain
I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go Wildcats), babysitter, photojournalist, drill team girl, emo kid - and not one of them defined me, but every single one will always play a part in who I am. Votes: 1 Debby Ryan
A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well as its triumphs. I especially liked the chapter on much-hated school mathematics, 'Almost All Children Left Behind.' Votes: 3 David Mumford
Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh. Votes: 3 Laura Mvula
I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School. Votes: 2 Jim Fowler
I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer. Votes: 1 Fred Savage
I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me. Votes: 1 Pierce Brown
What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology. Votes: 1 Harold Bloom
Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play. Votes: 4 Chris Gabrieli
At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys. Votes: 1 Paul Nurse
Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition. Votes: 3 Jared Polis
Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.' Votes: 4 Antoine Predock
The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum. Votes: 7 Menander
To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life. Votes: 4 Isadora Duncan
I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you. Votes: 3 Amy Winehouse
I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my acting class on Saturday. Votes: 1 Gillian Jacobs
At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and their families at the time. I was turning into Mary Poppins because I had to do something for these kids who have nowhere to go. So my house was the school for two years. Votes: 1 Jenny McCarthy
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. Votes: 1 Nick Cave
Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists. Votes: 2 Pat Roberts
Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses. Votes: 3 Rick Ross
For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, 'Oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.' Votes: 1 Demetri Martin
I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to university. Votes: 4 Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind was heralded as groundbreaking. And in some ways, it was. Votes: 4 John Kline
I'm in the middle of my own 'Project Runway' challenge given to me by my daughter's preschool. All the parents have to make an outfit for their kids, for school pictures, made entirely out of recycled objects. I can not believe I have homework. Votes: 3 Busy Philipps
I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot onstage. On the other side of the pot was a little girl who had dark hair, and she and I were representing the Italians. And I thought: Is that what an Italian looked like? Votes: 2 Al Pacino
I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays. Votes: 2 Theo James
In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education. Votes: 2 Russell Means
If your kids see what you eat, they will probably eat it, too. I'm not going to use the old-school policy of what my mother did and say to my kids, 'Well, if you are hungry enough, you will eat what I put on the table!' I think my kids have an understanding that if they see what their parents do, they should follow, too. Votes: 3 Michael Strahan
I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy. Votes: 3 Loretta Napoleoni
As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. Votes: 3 Cokie Roberts
We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age. Votes: 2 Caitlyn Jenner
If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue. Votes: 6 Itay Talgam
If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue. Votes: 5 Itay Talgam
Fears to look bad in front of other people, to say something wrong, to be laughed at - all those fears deprive us of half of our abilities. This is one of the main school problems. That teacher understands it, who can teach students to study without fear of the teacher, without fear of classmates, and, the most important, without fear of a subject. Votes: 3 Simon Soloveychik
Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs. Votes: 3 Robert Reich
I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice. Votes: 4 Margaret Cho
The time has come to end social promotion in our schools. Votes: 1 Roy Barnes
I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too. Votes: 3 Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When I was in high school I thought I was going to university into psychology. Votes: 1 Tricia Helfer
It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5. Votes: 3 James Heckman
We must make sure that there is recess and P.E. class in every school, getting kids outside for 60 minutes, every day. Votes: 4 Darell Hammond
My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition. Votes: 1 Benedict Cumberbatch
In my mind, there is no reason public school reform should be a partisan issue. Votes: 4 Michael Bennet
Work is a different type of pursuit than relationships. You can't take the skills that you know that have gotten you into that great school or into that great job and apply them to your relationships. Votes: 3 Tracy McMillan
I was always in trouble for chatting. My school reports all used to say, 'Donna is a very bright girl, but she must stop talking in class.' In the end, I made a career out of it. Votes: 5 Donna Air
Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half. Votes: 1 Sandra Day O'Connor
So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school. Votes: 4 Kevin Mitnick
So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school. Votes: 2 Kevin Mitnick
Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated. Votes: 4 Erma Bombeck
What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life. Votes: 3 Paul Theroux
Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. Votes: 3 Elizabeth Blackwell
If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle? Votes: 3 Christine Pelosi
I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention. Votes: 3 Luke Perry
I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly. Votes: 1 Suzy Bogguss
I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations. Votes: 1 John Perkins
What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings. Votes: 4 Marilyn Manson
You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop. Votes: 2 Sherman Alexie
My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit. Votes: 3 George Woodcock
For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams. Votes: 3 Hamish Bowles
August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery. Votes: 3 Henry Rollins
I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and 'Go, Dog. Go!,' thinking, 'Oh yeah, that's funny. I'd like to do that.' And then writing throughout school, but at the same time I was studying pre-med stuff, because my mom told me I should be a doctor. Votes: 1 Jon Scieszka
I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that. Votes: 1 Junot Diaz
The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need. Votes: 2 Anne Sullivan
School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects. Votes: 3 Leigh Steinberg
I remember how much fun it was to pick out my lunchbox. My all-time favorite lunch box was from the movie 'Annie.' Also, I loved picking out school supplies! Trapper Keepers were my favorite. Votes: 4 Camille Guaty
My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System. Votes: 3 James Cronin
My dad is an ob-gyn - he's retired now - and he wanted to come to the States to make a better life, for opportunity. My mom said that, on the plane ride here, I did not want to speak a word of English - I spoke Tagalog. And then, after the first day of school, I didn't want to speak anything but English. Votes: 1 Reggie Lee
My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free. Votes: 2 Cat Cora
My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky. Votes: 1 Sam Abell
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses. Votes: 2 David E. Kelley
How we get power, how cars are powered, when the technology and resources to have something that is infinitely better, we still use old-school technology. We're still using that same exact structure. Votes: 4 Dana Brunetti
Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do. Votes: 5 Dennis Moore
I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test. Votes: 2 Mary-Kate Olsen
I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days. Votes: 1 Bjork
[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks and French grammars before Sunday school time. Votes: 3 Edna St. Vincent Millay
Mom, is the world coming to an end?" Jonny asked, picking up the plate of cookies and ramming one into his mouth. "No, it isn'T," Mom said, folding her lawn chair and carrying it to the front of the house. "And yes, you do have to go to school tomorrow. Votes: 3 Susan Beth Pfeffer
Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts. Votes: 1 Ian Mckellen
A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on. Votes: 1 Robert Reich
I have always been absurdly, ridiculously tall. To give you an idea- when we went on school trips to Interesting and Improving Places, the form-master wouldn't say "Meet under the clock tower," or "Meet under the War Memorial," but "Meet under Adams. Votes: 5 Douglas Adams
[On School Uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's not a new idea, either. I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand because the narration was in German. Votes: 11 George Carlin
It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring. Votes: 1 Henry Rollins
I'd always had a hankering to write some old-school sword and sorcery. And there certainly are advantages to that particular form - for one thing, you're able to go all-out on the imaginative front, with a lot less concern for the usual unities of time and space and character. Votes: 1 Richard K. Morgan
Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that's when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past. Votes: 2 P. J. O'Rourke
There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent. Votes: 2 Sharon Stone
There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad. Votes: 8 Bill Dedman
Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools. Votes: 1 Chris Gabrieli
I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A. Votes: 1 Rachelle Lefevre
Some children lack tools to see their course in the world in far-sighted ways. Just introducing school vouchers won't change that. You have to have nurse-home partnerships, early childhood education, mentoring programs and so on. People learn from people they love. Votes: 4 David Brooks
There was nothing I could - and wanted to - learn in school. It was just a complete waste of my time. Votes: 2 Simon Cowell
A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexuality, and that breaks my heart, because they're going to have to - high school's hard enough to overcome. Middle school is hard enough to overcome when we get out of it. They say life is what you spend your time getting over because of high school, you know what I mean? Votes: 1 Kristin Chenoweth
When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses. Votes: 1 Hunter Hayes
For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity; for electricity, you need some trained workers; for trained workers, you need some schools; for schools you need some money; for money, you need some industry. Votes: 1 Evan Davis
If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself. Votes: 1 Cynthia Nixon
My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table. Votes: 0 Camille Guaty
Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education. Votes: 2 Eliza Dushku
As I see it, the debate between summer vacation vs. year-round school glosses over the most important questions. Namely, how can we bring play back to our nation's schools? Votes: 1 Darell Hammond
If you could replace high-school yearbooks, that could be a lot of money. It's so clearly waiting for someone to come along. Votes: 3 Paul Graham
In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing in secondary school. In university, Mubarak was still president of Egypt. I came to assume, subconsciously, that he - and others like Paul Biya in Cameroon and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya - would never leave. Votes: 2 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers. Votes: 3 Ingrid Newkirk
It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting. Votes: 2 Steve Buscemi
I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years. Votes: 4 Nat Wolff
Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different. Votes: 5 Cory Doctorow
My son graduated high school and went to Haiti to work for his dad's organization and then extended his stay. It's incredible what he's doing. Votes: 1 Robin Wright
I played sports in high school and in college. Votes: 4 Jon Bernthal
Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do. Votes: 5 Alexis Herman
I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not because I had any particular aptitude in them, but because normally on the first day of school they'd hand out schoolbooks, and I'd read them--which would mean that I'd know what was coming up, because I'd read it. Votes: 4 Neil Gaiman
I am a socialist and at the same time clear about a certain number of values ... family values, environmental values, the value of succeeding at school, the value of merit and respect for work. To me these are not incompatible with being of the left. Votes: 3 Segolene Royal
When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed. Votes: 1 Sheryl Sandberg
The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools. Votes: 2 Bob Riley
Summer School: Never stop learnin' if you want to stop earnin'. I'm reasonably sure there G's in learning and earning. Votes: 6 Kami Garcia
People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true. Votes: 8 Richard M. Nixon
I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back. Votes: 4 Steve Harvey
I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team. Votes: 1 Ron Perlman
It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri. Votes: 3 Dan Simmons
We were living in Denver, Colorado, and I was teaching high school. I asked the kids to write a short story, so I thought I should write some myself. Votes: 3 Adrian McKinty
As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion. Votes: 1 Rudy Giuliani
When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group. Votes: 1 Adam Hamilton
When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild. Votes: 3 T Bone Burnett
In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today. Votes: 4 Daniel Greenberg
In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy. Votes: 1 Zoey Deutch
I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades. Votes: 2 Levon Helm
The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society. Votes: 2 Gaston Caperton
During its first year of operation, Florida Virtual School had 77 students. The next year, it had 476 students; then 2,489 students the year after that. Votes: 1 Daniel Webster
We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum. Votes: 3 Philip Greenspun
I've been wearing lipstick since I was in 7th grade. That was our form of daring self-expression, because we had to wear uniforms in school. It made our teachers so angry. Votes: 1 Kourtney Kardashian
Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school. Votes: 1 Jose Andres Puerta
I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it. Votes: 1 Chrisette Michele
I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me. Votes: 3 Pierce Brown
One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year. Votes: 1 Michael Gove
As I see it, the debate between summer vacation vs. year-round school glosses over the most important questions. Namely, how can we bring play back to our nation's schools? Votes: 4 Darell Hammond
I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years. Votes: 4 Patrick Wilson
In high school, sometimes you just can't help who you have a crush on and who you fall for! If you fall for one of your friend's exes, for example, it's really all about communication and telling your friend. Hiding it is never a good thing. Votes: 1 Jillian Rose Reed