94 Quotes About Schooling

Better schooling may help you grab a better degree. But for winning in life you must learn from the hard battlefields of social living.

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.

There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state, as religion. Let it once enter into our civil affairs, our government soon would be destroyed. Let it once enter our common schools, they would be destroyed. Those who made our Constitution saw this, and used the most apt and comprehensive language in it to prevent such a catastrophe.[Weiss v. District Board, March 18, 1890]

A person who says “every person has a right to a decent education” may not actually mean “people should be robbed to support bad schools” or “all children should be forced into a prison-like building for 12 years.

More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.

In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away.

In the race of life I would rather to be around the best and sink than to be around mediocrity and swim.