3,403 Quotes About School
- Author Richard L. Ratliff
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We learn and grow Always building on what we know
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- Author A.S. Neill
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No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness.
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- Author Eudora Welty
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It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to measure up was paralysing. It was never that Mother wanted me to beat my classmates in grades, what she wanted was for me to have my answers right. It was unclouded perfection I was up against.
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- Author Gordon Korman
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Registration Day' by Gavin Gunhold (1899— ) Toronto Review of Poetry, 1947On registration day at taxidermy schoolI distinctly saw the eyes of the stuffed mooseMove.
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- Author Gordon Korman
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You did a politics project on a government that got overthrown on the due date? Man, did anybody ever tell you you've got no luck?""I suspected it," said Raymond ironically.
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- Author Charbel Tadros
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Anyone can put a price on knowledge - schools and universities do it all the time, but no one can put a price on wisdom for it can neither be bought nor sold. It should be given and accepted with no ulterior motives.
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- Author Gervase Phinn
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Is there something else?""Well, there is actually. I can't get out of the chair. I'm stuck!
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- Author James Kakalios
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Interestingly enough, whenever I cite examples from superhero comic books in a lecture, my students never wonder when they will use this information in their "real life". Apparently they all have plans, post-graduation, that involve protecting the City from all threat while wearing spandex. As a law-abiding citizen, this notion fills me with a great sense of security, knowing as I do how many of my scientist colleagues could charitably be termed "mad".
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- Author Caspar Vega
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Hang out in front of a school on a Friday after class has been dismissed. Some notion. I wonder if any inmates ever choose to just hang out in front of the prison after they've been released.
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