3,403 Quotes About School

  • Author vince staples
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    School doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.

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  • Author vince staples
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    School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.

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  • Author Will Smith
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    The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

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  • Author William Scranton
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    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.

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  • Author Zadie Smith
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    Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything.

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  • Author Aaron Tveit
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    I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

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  • Author Alexis de Tocqueville
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    Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science: they bring it within the people's reach, and teach them how to use and enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.

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  • Author Amish Tripathi
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    I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.

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