3,403 Quotes About School

So why are you skipping school? Can you tell me that?""Nothing ever really happens," I say."Meaning?""Meaning nothing original or new ever really happens and school is just a place where we all pretend like we're new and original and we're not. We're all the same.

How will a girl like me born childrens? Why will I fill up the world with sad childrens that are not having a chance to go to school? Why make the world to be one big, sad, silent place because all the childrens are not having a voice?

Because there are so many kids, they run schools like factories, or dare I say, jails. You're put into lines and rows and moved when a bell rings. None of this is conducive to deep thinking or creativity. You start to go deep into a subject, and a bell rings to pull you out of it.

Indeed, children’s intrinsic motivation in school has been shown to decline every year over the course of traditional schooling.

Every day in your life is a day in school,” Father Stephen said. “One takes many things from a school but one attends primarily, in order to learn.

Squeak sq-squeak sq-squeak: fifty tennis shoes jumping and skipping against the waxed wood floor. Dodgeball. Perfect. It smells like the armpits of Satan in here.

When children attend schools that place a greater value in discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prisons.

Her old high school was a fine high school, if you liked high school. It wasn’t bad or evil. It was just like it was supposed to be - miles of linoleum and humming lights, the warm funk of cafeteria stink too early in the morning, the flashes of inspiration that were quickly quashed by long stretches of tedium, and the perpetual desire to be somewhere else.

Sharon:innocent freckle-faced red-hairedgood Sharon:I was a vicious, vengeful compulsive BRUTE to you at school.30+ years on-Now I'm very sorry