3,403 Quotes About School

  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.

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  • Author Itay Talgam
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    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.

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  • Author James Thurber
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    Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends.

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  • Author Jason Thomas
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    I think it's kind of early. We need our time to have a break, you know. Too much school is not good.

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  • Author Jason Terry
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    In high school, I was just a guy who ran the court and played defense. Now I have the whole package.

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  • Author Jon Tester
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    Youve got to have a good public education system so small-business owners, when they locate to an area, are confident their kids are getting the best education possible. I feel strongly about local control in school districts.

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  • Author Justin Theroux
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    I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that. But I wasn't doing well in any of the schools, so by ninth or tenth grade, I ended up going to a boarding school.

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  • Author Justin Theroux
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    After my parents got divorced, I had to go right into public school in the fourth grade. The Steiner school had never really taught me how to read, so it was a rude awakening. I was playing catch-up the whole time.

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