Quotes and Sayings about Schools
"If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals."
- Susan B. Anthony
(Related: Money, People, Church, Children, Ideals, Public, Schools)
"No, the czar did not want us in the schools."
- Mary Antin
(Related: Schools, Want)
"Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children."
- Joe Baca
(Related: Education, Values, Children, Nation, Parents, Schools, Teaching)
"Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women."
- Judith M. Bardwick
(Related: Women, Conformity, Schools)
"The time has come to end social promotion in our schools."
- Roy Barnes
(Related: Time, End, Promotion, Schools)
"We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding."
- Roy Barnes
(Related: Hope, Formula, Names, Schools, Training)
"There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way."
- Leonard Baskin
(Related: Change, Time, Beginning, Interest, Now, Schools, World)
"The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it."
- Leonard Baskin
(Related: Art, Kids, Schools)
"I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face."
- Melissa Bean
(Related: Daughters, Internet, Safety, Schools, Talk, Teenagers)
"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."
- Warren Beatty
(Related: Public, Safety, Schools, Teachers)
"I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude."
- Richard Rodney Bennett
(Related: Science, Games, Schools)
"Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools."
- William Bennett
(Related: Money, People, Schools, Years)
"We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it."
- Craig Benson
(Related: Law, Schools, State)
"And, in the case of schools, or anything else, if you have something that is forcing you to do better than you did the day before, it makes you look forward and it makes you think in a way that's going to make the product better, which is the students and the education."
- Craig Benson
(Related: Education, Day, Schools, Students)
"This legislation gives parents some comfort that their children won't fall prey to child predators while using the Internet at schools and libraries that receive federal dollars for Internet services."
- Judy Biggert
(Related: Children, Comfort, Internet, Legislation, Libraries, Parents, Schools)
"I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days."
- Bjork
(Related: Music, Schools)
"I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education."
- Rod Blagojevich
(Related: Education, Priorities, Schools, Want, Will)
"Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective."
- Michael Bloomberg
(Related: Schools, World)
"How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority."
- Neal Boortz
(Related: Christian, Authority, Challenge, Military, Question, Schools, Students)
"I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself."
- Robert Bork
(Related: Constitution, Court, Law, Opinions, Schools, Study)
"I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion."
- Jack Bowman
(Related: Education, Religion, Belief, Christian, Christmas, Kids, Schools, Years)
"I think the Republicans are subverted by the fact that so many of their leaders send their kids to private schools, they don't really have the stomach for the fight."
- Peter Brimelow
(Related: Fact, Fight, Kids, Leaders, Republicans, Schools)
"Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?"
- Peter Brimelow
(Related: End, Open, Restaurants, Schools, Teachers)
"I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York."
- Morgan Brittany
(Related: Change, Education, Name, Schools)
"The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness."
- Jerome Bruner
(Related: Work, Laziness, Schools)
"The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective."
- Warren Buffett
(Related: Business, Behavior, Reward, Schools)
"I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning."
- Conrad Burns
(Related: Learning, Light, Montana, Schools, Trying)
"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."
- Lord Byron
(Related: Architecture, Poetry, Dress, Man, Painting, Schools)
"We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio."
- Nick Cannon
(Related: Schools, Television)
"The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses."
- Gaston Caperton
(Related: Schools, Students, Today, Years)
"It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation."
- Gaston Caperton
(Related: Hope, Participation, Schools)
"The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society."
- Gaston Caperton
(Related: Education, Society, Country, Schools)
"Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias."
- Lois Capps
(Related: Bicycles, Children, Nation, School, Schools)
"Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives."
- Donald L. Carcieri
(Related: Economy, Schools)
"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent."
- Stokely Carmichael
(Related: Children, Country, Now, Schools)
"I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered."
- Ed Case
(Related: Being, Fact, Homosexuality, Public, Reality, Schools, Value)
"Nowadays people seem to switch schools, either because they have to, and certain schools only serve certain grades, or because they move to a different place or have some particular interest, but I was in the same school for 13 years."
- Steve Case
(Related: People, Interest, School, Schools, Years)
"During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities."
- Michael N. Castle
(Related: Policy, African, Americans, Learning, Network, Schools)
"Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well."
- Michael N. Castle
(Related: Children, Community, Future, Politicians, Responsibility, Schools)
"By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools."
- Michael N. Castle
(Related: Education, Appreciation, Ivy, Road, Schools, State, Students, Value)
"We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers."
- Thomas R. Cech
(Related: Time, Community, School, Schools, Scientists, Teachers)
"From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world."
- Dick Cheney
(Related: Graduation, Being, Chance, Key, Public, Schools, Succeed, World)
"If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Fashion, Girls, Schools)
"I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs."
- Jim Clyburn
(Related: Mother, Needs, Problems, Public, Schools)
"Lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that's happened to us?"
- Tom Coburn
(Related: Lesbianism, Now, Schools)
"The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?"
- Nat King Cole
(Related: Time, Audiences, Chance, Court, Schools)
"The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after."
- Dabney Coleman
(Related: Acting, Months, Night, Schools)
"Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins."
- James S. Coleman
(Related: Successful, Dependence, Schools)
"The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education."
- James S. Coleman
(Related: Education, Present, Schools)
"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
- James S. Coleman
(Related: Competition, Schools)
"As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests."
- James S. Coleman
(Related: Music, Sports, Example, Schools, State)
"Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels."
- James S. Coleman
(Related: Family, Children, Schools, Will)
"Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards."
- James S. Coleman
(Related: Schools, Students, Teaching)
"America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive."
- Norm Coleman
(Related: America, Economy, Interest, Schools, Students, World)
"Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine, and these visits are among the most rewarding experiences in my career in public service."
- Susan Collins
(Related: Time, Experience, Career, Children, Investment, Public, Schools, Service)
"Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework."
- Bill Cosby
(Related: Education, Sex, Idea, Kids, May, Schools)
"Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA."
- Stanley Crouch
(Related: Crime, Culture, Dogs, Parents, Police, Politicians, Popular, Schools)
"I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools."
- Andrew Cuomo
(Related: Education, Battle, Civil rights, Public, Schools, Support)
"If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools."
- Mike Davidson
(Related: Computers, Technology, Children, Hardware, School, Schools)
"I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids."
- Peter Maxwell Davies
(Related: Time, Kids, Schools, Teaching, Writing)
"I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance."
- Geena Davis
(Related: Action, Girls, Parents, School, Schools, Years)
"Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it."
- Marc Davis
(Related: Time, Pretty, School, Schools)
"If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will."
- Stockwell Day
(Related: Education, Sex, Law, Liberals, Schools, Will)
"The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills."
- Tom DeLay
(Related: Control, Birth control, Causes, Evolution, Kids, Mothers, Parents, Schools, Teaching, Violence, Youth)
"If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools."
- Jim DeMint
(Related: Gay, Public, Schools, Teaching)
"I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all."
- Frank Dobson
(Related: Muslim, Schools)
"Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children."
- John Doolittle
(Related: America, Children, Country, Parents, Responsibility, Schools, Teachers)
"I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats."
- Donna Douglas
(Related: Church, Schools, Trade, Youth)
"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded."
- Rita Dove
(Related: Schools)
"I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Family, Publishing, Right, Schools)
"If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system."
- Robert Duncan
(Related: Government, Money, School, Schools)
"The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized."
- Katherine Dunn
(Related: Women, Schools, Violence)
"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."
- Dave Eggers
(Related: Time, Compassion, Listening, Open, Parents, Questions, Schools, Students, Teachers)
"Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life."
- Robert. L. Ehrlich
(Related: Family, Life, Work, Quality, Opportunity, Financial, Building, Healthcare, Schools, Security)
"I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked."
- Eminem
(Related: Mom, Schools, Welfare)
"And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents."
- John Engler
(Related: Choices, Creation, Parents, Public, Schools)
"Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is."
- John Engler
(Related: Being, School, Schools, State)
"I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools."
- John Engler
(Related: Schools)
"I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music."
- Kevin Eubanks
(Related: Experience, Music, People, Play, Rivers, School, Schools)
"Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball."
- Jim Evans
(Related: Work, Baseball, Schools, Umpire)
"I'm for prayer in schools."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Prayer, Schools)
"It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools."
- Shawn Fanning
(Related: Potential, Press, Public, Saying, Schools)
"But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers."
- Frederic William Farrar
(Related: Life, Character, Man, Schools, Teachers)
"I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools."
- Sally Field
(Related: Time, Drama, Schools)
"I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city."
- Bob Filner
(Related: Children, School, Schools, Years)
"In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century."
- Louis Finkelstein
(Related: Action, Historians, Schools, Today)
"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."
- Mark Foley
(Related: Education, Nature, Virtue, Public, Schools, Spiritual)
"In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools."
- Mark Foley
(Related: Education, Faith, Trust, Discipline, Compassion, Ideals, Schools, Understanding)
"By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children."
- Mark Foley
(Related: Education, Development, Character, Values, Children, Parents, Schools, Students)
"Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic."
- Mark Foley
(Related: Schools, states, Students, United)
"The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally."
- Steve Forbes
(Related: Home, Government, Attitude, American, Example, Numbers, Parents, Public, Schools)
"Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be better trained to compete for a job locally."
- Vincent Frank
(Related: Education, Children, Job, Schools, Will)
"Schools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs and abilities of the children who enter them."
- Peter Fraser
(Related: Children, Needs, Population, Schools)
"It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber."
- Robert Fulghum
(Related: Money, Day, Force, Schools, Will)
"I wish I had more time to visit schools."
- Cornelia Funke
(Related: Time, Schools, Visit)
"Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified."
- Maggie Gallagher
(Related: Schools, Teachers)
"Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools."
- Maggie Gallagher
(Related: Money, Control, Curriculum, Public, Schools, Teachers)
"The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points."
- Maggie Gallagher
(Related: Performance, Reading, Results, School, Schools)
"Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused."
- Maggie Gallagher
(Related: Money, People, Achievement, Kids, Parents, Poor, Satisfaction, Schools, Students, Teachers)
"I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive."
- John W. Gardner
(Related: Education, Now, Schools, Today, Will, Wonder, Years)
"There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it."
- Laura San Giacomo
(Related: Education, Job, Schools)
"Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have."
- Kirk Gibson
(Related: Now, Schools, Water)
"We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Nature, Imagination, Truth, Law, Schools)
"Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?"
- William Glasser
(Related: Work, Competence, Help, Schools, Students, Will, World)
"We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts."
- William Glasser
(Related: Knowledge, Facts, Focus, Schools, Thinking)
"As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families."
- William Glasser
(Related: Knowledge, Goal, Schools, Will)
"We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system."
- William Glasser
(Related: Nothing, Schools, Teachers)
"If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement."
- William Glasser
(Related: Education, Agreement, Schools, Teachers, Word)
"Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training."
- Fay Godwin
(Related: Mother, Father, American, Artist, Children, Germany, London, Photography, Schools, Training, World)
"I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should."
- Matt Gonzalez
(Related: Money, Schools)
"Just this week, my husband proposed a plan for schools and libraries to develop their own plans to keep children from finding indecent material on the Internet as an alternative to a Congressional proposal that would require a federally mandated solution."
- Tipper Gore
(Related: HusbChildren, Internet, Libraries, Schools, Solution)
"I don't like schools. And I mean, you have to call on all your friends to get them into their schools."
- Eydie Gorme
(Related: Friends, Schools)
"It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed."
- Andrew Greeley
(Related: Science, Intellectuals, Schools)
"Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now."
- Daniel Greenberg
(Related: Technology, Now, Schools, Will)
"Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do."
- Daniel Greenberg
(Related: Time, Work, Travel, Jobs, Schools, Trade, Training, Want)
"So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled."
- Daniel Greenberg
(Related: Technology, Regret, Schools)
"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."
- Daniel Greenberg
(Related: Work, Mistake, Culture, Information, Schools, Today, World)
"When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential."
- Christine Gregoire
(Related: Design, Time, Work, Potential, School, Schools, Students)
"Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development."
- G. Stanley Hall
(Related: Work, Development)
"Well, I think, you know, the university and the high schools are also important, but depends how I'm going to do in tennis - well, I hope. I mean, it depends, so I don't know yet."
- Daniela Hantuchova
(Related: Hope, Schools, Tennis, University)
"Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany."
- Marcia Gay Harden
(Related: Dad, American, Germany, Kids, Meeting, School, Schools, Service)
"A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop."
- Isaac Hayes
(Related: Brothers, Name, Nothing, Schools)
"Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority."
- Rutherford B. Hayes
(Related: Education, Authority, End, Liberal, Rest, Schools, State, Support)
"This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary."
- Patricia Heaton
(Related: Kids, Schools)
"I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors."
- John Hench
(Related: Art, People, Artist, Information, Schools)
"There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools."
- Ruben Hinojosa
(Related: Congress, Country, Schools)
"If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation."
- Ruben Hinojosa
(Related: Failure, English, Law, Nation, Right, Schools, Students, Will)
"For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind."
- Ruben Hinojosa
(Related: Population, Schools)
"When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves."
- David Horowitz
(Related: Right, Schools, Students, Thinking)
"If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Home, Time, Children, Mothers, Schools)
"Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before."
- Jane D. Hull
(Related: Leader, Children, Choice, Choices, Tax, Giving, Parents, School, Schools)
"I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system."
- John Hume
(Related: Grammar, School, Schools, State)
"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism."
- Robert M. Hutchins
(Related: Criticism, Justification, Schools, Trade)
"The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today."
- Ernest Istook
(Related: Being, Curriculum, Drugs, Kids, Motives, Parents, Pressure, Schools, Today, Violence)
"Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer."
- Alphonso Jackson
(Related: Education, Progress, Americans, Schools)
"They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America."
- Alphonso Jackson
(Related: America, Pride, Schools)
"The training of the schools should be extended to the heart as well as the mind and hand."
- Sheldon Jackson
(Related: Heart, Mind, Schools, Training)
"Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law."
- June Jordan
(Related: Sister, Brother, Habits, Language, Law, Lying, Schools, Self, Speech, Writing)
"Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize."
- James Joyce
(Related: Art, Pleasure, Schools)
"I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event."
- Anatoly Karpov
(Related: Chess, Children, Schools, Thinking)
"If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets."
- Maynard James Keenan
(Related: Education, Knowledge, Kids, Newspapers, Schools, Television)
"Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions."
- Steve Kerr
(Related: Sports, Opportunity, Country, Diversity, Kids, Schools)
"In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law."
- Aly Khan
(Related: Legal, Islam, Doctrine, Law, Liberty, Principles, Schools)
"I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools."
- Chaka Khan
(Related: Art, Work, Schools)
"In this way, some film schools can be destructive."
- Richard King
(Related: Film, Schools)
"I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools."
- Sally Kirkland
(Related: Education, Alliance, Schools)
"Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them."
- Robert Kiyosaki
(Related: Education, Financial, Schools)
"There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week."
- Mark Knopfler
(Related: College, Country, Guitar, Kids, Play, Schools, Singing)
"Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools."
- Jonathan Kozol
(Related: Schools)
"An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true."
- Jonathan Kozol
(Related: People, Idea, America, College, Schools)
"During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed."
- Jonathan Kozol
(Related: Education, Time, Progress, Achievement, Public, Schools)
"If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school."
- Jonathan Kozol
(Related: Public, School, Schools, Support, Will)
"I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students."
- Jonathan Kozol
(Related: People, Idea, School, Schools, Students)
"Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything."
- John Kricfalusi
(Related: Music, Art, Arithmetic, Now, Reading, Schools, Writing)
"From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now."
- John Kricfalusi
(Related: Experience, Artists, Hiring, Now, Schools, Years)
"It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely."
- Ted Kulongoski
(Related: Choice, Future, Monument, Past, Schools, Today, Will)
"I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time."
- Charles Kuralt
(Related: Age, Time, Thought, People, Kids, Poor, School, Schools)
"I think our vision heretofore has been and should continue to be to have Cardozo be the kind of law school that we can be proud of. I would like to see it gain recognition as one of the three best law schools in New York City."
- Norman Lamm
(Related: Vision, Gain, Law, School, Schools)
"At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum."
- Joseph Lancaster
(Related: Children, Parents, Schools)
"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety."
- Joseph Lancaster
(Related: Public, Schools)
"It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia."
- Henry Lawson
(Related: Children, Fact, Now, Public, Schools, Shame)
"I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy."
- Nigella Lawson
(Related: Authority, Fact, Schools)
"That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now."
- Curtis Lemay
(Related: Destruction, Military, Now, Potential, Reason, Schools, Thinking, Today)
"So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children."
- Phil Lesh
(Related: Education, Children, Opinion, Schools, Support)
"We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through."
- Sam Levenson
(Related: Prayer, Schools)
"The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children."
- Joe Lieberman
(Related: Education, Children, President, Promise, Reform, Schools)
"When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week."
- Alex Lifeson
(Related: Age, Drinking, Schools, Years)
"Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere."
- Linda Lingle
(Related: Government, People, Heart, Jobs, Schools)
"The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich."
- James Loeb
(Related: Time, Attention, Day, Enjoyment, Literature, Past, Schools, Teaching)
"Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools."
- Jeremy London
(Related: Schools)
"I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Heart, Hell, Labor, Schools, Will, Youth)
"When schools flourish, all flourishes."
- Martin Luther
(Related: Schools)
"The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need."
- Anne Sullivan Macy
(Related: Experience, Schools, Wrong)
"Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Schools)
"We are fortunate to live an area that is blessed with outstanding schools and educators. We are proud of the quality of education that they provide to local students."
- Kenny Marchant
(Related: Education, Quality, Schools, Students)
"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."
- Ed Markey
(Related: Technology, America, Comfort, Economy, Engineering, Safety, Schools, Scientists)
"The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past."
- Ed Markey
(Related: Past, Schools, Today)
"Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime."
- Francis Maude
(Related: Crime, Party, Schools)
"There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate."
- Chi McBride
(Related: Schools)
"Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools."
- Cathy McMorris
(Related: Science, Technology, America, Engineering, Schools, Today)
"We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet."
- Margaret Mead
(Related: Children, Now, Schools, Yesterday)
"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."
- Russell Means
(Related: People, Dress, Public, Schools)
"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."
- Russell Means
(Related: Education, Government, Policy, Ideas, Creation, Fact, Public, Schools, Thinking)
"You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes."
- Moses Mendelssohn
(Related: Schools)
"One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options."
- Thomas Menino
(Related: Attention, Key, Learning, Options, Schools)
"We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet."
- Thomas Menino
(Related: Country, First, Internet, School, Schools)
"Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them."
- Nicholas Meyer
(Related: Society, People, Books, Libraries, Schools)
"It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that."
- Ed Miliband
(Related: Education, Faith, People, Country, School, Schools, State, Want)
"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."
- Kelly Millar
(Related: Schools)
"It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought."
- Alice Miller
(Related: Thought, Childhood, Confusion, Repression, Schools)
"When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life."
- Jack Miller
(Related: Education, Life, Quality, Ability, Desire, Economy, School, Schools, Wrong)
"There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring."
- Ashley Montagu
(Related: Medical, Caring, Schools, Students)
"I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Truth, Debate, Questions, Schools)
"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."
- Dennis Moore
(Related: Apples, Job, Public, School, Schools)
"My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Advice, Autumn, Schools, Support, Will)
"OFSTED has made large cuts in the paperwork which schools are asked to provide and further steps to reduce the bureaucratic burden will be introduced in September."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Burden, Schools, Will)
"The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Government, Information, Investment, Schools, Support)
"There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Time, Numbers, Schools, Teachers)
"Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Change, Schools)
"By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: People, Ability, Help, Job, Right, Schools)
"I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Schools, Years)
"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."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Government, Power, Failure, Schools)
"Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time."
- Toni Morrison
(Related: Time, People, Being, Job, Schools)
"Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city."
- Toni Morrison
(Related: People, Schools, Victims, Violence)
"The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free."
- Frank Murphy
(Related: Reason, Schools)
"Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood."
- Janet Napolitano
(Related: Society, Adulthood, Children, Public, Schools)
"My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months."
- Daniel Nathans
(Related: Age, Education, Job, Months, Public, School, Schools, Summer, Years)
"This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools)."
- Michael Newdow
(Related: Government, Religion)
"Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting."
- Marc Newson
(Related: Design, Schools, Visit)
"In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms."
- Chuck Norris
(Related: Change, Control, America, Kids, Now, Schools, Teachers)
"We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible."
- Barack Obama
(Related: Education, Money, People, Desire, Obligation, Responsibility, Schools, Students, Will)
"Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me."
- Conan O'Brien
(Related: School, Schools, Today, Vote)
"The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that."
- Madalyn Murray O'Hair
(Related: Government, People, Churches, Open, Parents, Relationships, Right, Schools)
"Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers."
- P. J. O'Rourke
(Related: Punishment, Schools, Teachers)
"When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s."
- Solomon Ortiz
(Related: African, Americans, Schools)
"I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology."
- Major Owens
(Related: Science, Technology, Time, Quality, Answers, School, Schools)
"Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools."
- Major Owens
(Related: Education, Technology, Challenge, Public, Schools)
"It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land."
- Rod Parsley
(Related: Marriage, Bible, Court, Land, Prayer, Reading, Schools)
"Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy."
- Tony Parsons
(Related: Grammar, Public, Schools)
"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Parents, Schools, Today, World)
"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."
- Rick Perry
(Related: Time, Building, Future, Job, Jobs, Prosperity, Schools)
"We're here so that Afghanistan does not once again become a sanctuary for transnational extremists the way it was when al-Qaeda planned the 9/11 attacks in the Kandahar area, conducted the initial training for the attackers in training camps in Afghanistan before they moved on to Germany and then to U.S. flight schools."
- David Petraeus
(Related: Afghanistan, Germany, Schools, Training)
"I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Business, Time, Age, Wife, Career, Kids, Parents, Schools)
"The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done."
- Jean Piaget
(Related: Education, Men, Women, Goal, Generations, Schools)
"We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools."
- Jon Porter
(Related: Balance, Country, Information, Pain, Schools, states)
"We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools."
- Jon Porter
(Related: Computers, Children, Public, Schools)
"Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens."
- Jon Porter
(Related: Work, College, Debt, Law, Medicine, Schools, Students, Teaching)
"Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind."
- Colin Powell
(Related: Act, Children, Giving, Schools, Teachers)
"I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools."
- Philip Pullman
(Related: Education, Interest, Schools)
"The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools."
- Anna Quindlen
(Related: People, Court, Culture, Future, Kids, Listening, School, Schools, Talking)
"With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools."
- Nick Rahall
(Related: Day, Mind, Nation, Prayer, Schools, Today)
"But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools."
- Johannes Rau
(Related: Education, Music, Society, People, Schools)
"We have always been a great national party, with views on all the main issues. We recognise that what matters to people most are those things that affect their daily lives: schools, hospitals, transport and law and order and we have plenty to say about them."
- John Redwood
(Related: People, Hospitals, Law, Order, Party, Schools)
"Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies."
- Jeremy Rifkin
(Related: Life, Science, Consulting, Relationships, Schools, Scientists)
"The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools."
- Bob Riley
(Related: Success, Economy, Schools)
"Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library."
- Michelle Rodriguez
(Related: Knowledge, Growing up, Intellect, Schools)
"The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools."
- James E. Rogers
(Related: Time, President, Schools)
"I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art."
- Richard Rogers
(Related: Architecture, Art, History, Science, Technology, Geography, Schools, Years)
"The schools ain't what they used to be and never was."
- Will Rogers
(Related: Schools)
"Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses."
- Rick Ross
(Related: Information, Responsibility, Schools)
"Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons."
- John Ruskin
(Related: Reform, Schools)
"But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays."
- Mark Rylance
(Related: Motivation, Thought, Comedy, Schools, Tragedy)
"We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons."
- Gale Sayers
(Related: Building, Schools)
"There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights."
- Phyllis Schlafly
(Related: Government, Belief, Control, Abortion, Evolution, Freedom, Rights, Liberal, Pornography, Prayer, Schools)
"I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me."
- Charles Schumer
(Related: Public, Schools)
"So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall."
- Charles Schumer
(Related: Education, Kids, Public, Schools, Want)
"Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Debate, Example, Inequality, Public, School, Schools, Will)
"In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: African, American, Children, Fact, Schools, Study)
"Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me."
- Jill Scott
(Related: Mother, Journey, Listening, Questions, Schools, Students, Talking)
"There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning."
- William Scranton
(Related: People, Hospitals, Schools)
"America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study."
- Anton Seidl
(Related: Music, Development, America, Schools, Study, Teachers)
"Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord."
- Jay Alan Sekulow
(Related: Time, Church, Now, Public, Schools)
"We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools."
- David Selby
(Related: Community, Environment, Schools, Teachers)
"If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty."
- Anna Howard Shaw
(Related: Women, Government, Liberty, Schools, states, United)
"I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children."
- George Shearing
(Related: Age, Time, Blind, Children, School, Schools)
"What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university."
- Mark Shields
(Related: Men, England, Schools, University)
"And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools."
- Hu Shih
(Related: Time, Present, Schools)
"There have always been card schools at football clubs and always will be."
- Peter Shilton
(Related: Football, Schools, Will)
"I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs."
- Sargent Shriver
(Related: Community, Needs, Schools)
"You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy."
- Neil Simon
(Related: Life, People, Comedy, Fact, Present, Schools, Vocation)
"The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need."
- Gordon Smith
(Related: Opportunity, Help, Potential, Promise, Schools, Students)
"I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing."
- Ian Smith
(Related: Civilization, Hospitals, Language, Schools)
"After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte."
- Vernon L. Smith
(Related: First, Schools)
"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."
- Margaret Spellings
(Related: America, Children, Improvement, Minority, Respect, Schools)
"In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools."
- Jack Steinberger
(Related: Education, Power, Children, Laws, Persecution, Public, Schools)
"I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times."
- Cat Stevens
(Related: Life, Music, Thought, Schools)
"Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam."
- Cat Stevens
(Related: Faith, Islam, Muslim, Fanaticism, Moderation, Schools)
"We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments."
- Adlai E. Stevenson
(Related: Equality, Idea, Chance, Pursuit, Schools)
"I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University."
- George Stigler
(Related: Schools, University, Washington)
"I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life."
- Joseph E. Stiglitz
(Related: Life, American, Children, Cities, Public, Schools)
"In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance."
- John Strachan
(Related: Churches, Growing up, Ignorance, Necessity, Schools, Sexes, Years)
"The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools."
- Billy Sunday
(Related: Bible, America, Banks, Blood, Rivers, Schools, Will)
"Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors."
- Bob Taft
(Related: Dream, American, Tax, Job, Kids, Pursuit, Schools, Support)
"I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about."
- Sachin Tendulkar
(Related: Life, Schools, Will)
"We have been so pleased with the response to our unique schools in the Nashville area, and we are confident that other areas will embrace our concept, as well."
- Scott Thompson
(Related: Schools, Will)
"I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana."
- James Tobin
(Related: School, Schools, University)
"But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools."
- Polly Toynbee
(Related: Faith, Government, Churches, Living, Luxury, Nation, Schools)
"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."
- Paul Tsongas
(Related: Equality, Women, Brotherhood, Commitment, Economy, Environment, Military, Schools, Violence)
"The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism."
- Benjamin Tucker
(Related: Thought, Authority, Liberty, Names, Principles, Schools, Socialism, State)
"Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend."
- Mao Tse Tung
(Related: Thought, Flowers, Schools)
"I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools."
- Charles Tupper
(Related: Education, Reason, Schools, Teachers)
"That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board."
- Charles Tupper
(Related: Minority, Religious, Schools, Will)
"I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious."
- Bjorn Ulvaeus
(Related: Faith, Religious, Schools)
"The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education."
- John Updike
(Related: Education, Wisdom, Children, Fathers, Founding, Parents, Schools)
"As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves."
- Ninette de Valois
(Related: Time, Schools)
"Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real."
- Charles Vest
(Related: Budgets, Country, Defense, Engineering, Research, Schools, Stress, Support)
"The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose."
- Miroslav Vitous
(Related: Money, Purpose, Principles, Schools)
"Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and their soul and spirit."
- David Vitter
(Related: Soul, Body, Future, Mind, Schools, Spirit)
"This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy."
- Henry A. Wallace
(Related: Failure, Vision, Churches, Democracy, Importance, Measure, Schools, Spiritual, Welfare)
"Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further."
- Zach Wamp
(Related: Government, Medical, Control, Failure, Schools, Taxes)
"English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century."
- Mary A. Ward
(Related: Education, Women, Knowledge, English, Girls, Schools, Today)
"There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs."
- John Warner
(Related: Community, Schools)
"We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school."
- Evelyn Waugh
(Related: Class, First, Leading, School, Schools)
"In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building."
- Michael Welch
(Related: Boston, Building, Schools)
"Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for."
- Mae West
(Related: Man, Reform, Schools)
"So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage."
- Margaret Whiting
(Related: Music, Curriculum, Kids, Schools, Teachers, Teaching, Trying)
"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences."
- Walt Whitman
(Related: Art, Democracy, Past, Poems, Schools, Theology)
"Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country."
- Roger Wicker
(Related: Health, Care, Country, Effect, Interest, Public, Safety, Schools, states)
"The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it."
- Simon Wiesenthal
(Related: Home, Forgiveness, Church, Denial, Parents, Schools, Silence)
"It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art."
- Oscar Wilde
(Related: Art, Schools)
"Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond."
- John Sergeant Wise
(Related: Education, Father, People, Public, Schools)
"Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority."
- Carter G. Woodson
(Related: Inferiority, Schools)
"I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms."
- Steve Wozniak
(Related: Bigotry, Schools)
"Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land."
- Mao Zedong
(Related: Thought, Policy, Progress, Culture, Flowers, Land, Schools)