3,403 Quotes About School

It was downright depressing, the lengths it took to feel special when you wrote yourself out on paper. All As? Who cared? That was the standard here. Some shows, some activities? Big deal. How were you changing the world?Sometimes, when I wasn't too busy, I wondered why we had to change the world so early.

Like everything else" - Meg spoke to the few remaining cauliflower heads - "it's falling apart. It's not right in the United States of America that a little kid shouldn't be safe in school.

Schools aren’t here for learning,’ Lucas explained patiently. ‘They’re here to torture you until you’re eighteen and then send you out into the world to suffer in a suit for the rest of your life.

They don’t really want to learn here. Or I think they do, but they have no time to learn what’s being taught. They’re busy trying to learn themselves. That’s probably why they didn’t talk to me. They have their own complicated landscapes, and I don’t fit.

Bullshit, as usual

Andrew Lonergan is a successful classroom teacher and father of two. He loves visiting Key West and Mackinaw Island on school breaks.

My school taught me to observe and only then believe. My church taught me to believe in order to observe. I ended up becoming a magician.

After a quick breakfast I headed off for school. I don't know what it was... maybe just something in the air... but I had an incredible sense of well-being that morning. Like I was ready to take on the world. Ready, in fact... for absolutely anything.

I’ve always thought of school as a rehearsal. Not the main event.