132 Quotes About Schools

No Child Left Behind' was implemented because the children in America were getting too smart and they needed to be stopped. It worked. Since its implementation, America has dropped from being #1 in education to #27.

Why aren't public schools opened 24 hours a day and 7 days a week? Why should parents have to work one set of hours while their children go to school a different set of hours? Why can't children attend school during the same hours that their parents work so they can spend more time together?

feeling the hot face kissing my skin, Still till fully set. The water wavingIn low current, crashing slowstill smashing against the banksFrom the passing boats and waving hands

…schools as we know them appear designed at every level to sabotage the supposed goals of education.

The history is teaching people,people don't teach the history. Science requires people to learn,it does not wait for people to learn.

The experience you gain doesn't have to be from a book or a teacher. However, during these times, you are forced to only gain your experience from them so you can get "a job

I wanted to pursue things, to know things, but I could not match the means of knowing that came naturally to me with the expectations of professors. The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free. Slowly, I was discovering myself.

Schools can therefore be seen as the most powerful alternative to jails and prisons. Unless the current structures of violence are eliminated from schools in impoverished comummities of color-including the presence of armed security guards and police-and unless schools become places that encourage the joy of learning, these schools will remain the major conduits to prisons.

Taking the risk to make the difficult and right choice leads to great rewards including stronger connections, safer schools, and more courageous peer groups.