132 Quotes About Schools

I came to see the streets and the schools as the arms of the same beast. One enjoyed the official power of the state while the other enjoyed its implicit sanction. But fear and violence were the weaponry of both.

USA schools have crazy shooter lock down practice 4 times per year!

It is easy to give up than to endure. Always choose the latter.

Animal testing doesn’t actually teach us anything. It sure as heck doesn’t teach them anything, either.”-Shenita Etwaroo

The Nashes pushed Johnny as hard socially as they did academically. At first, it was Boy Scout camp and Sunday Bible classes; later on, lessons at the Floyd Ward dancing school and membership in the John Aldens Society, a youth organization devoted to improving the manners of its members.

Fail in the streets and the crews would catch you slipping and take your body. Fail in the schools and you would be suspended and sent back to those same streets, where they would take your body.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authorities of surveillance and registration, its experts in normality, who continue and multiply the functions of the judge, should have become the modern instrument of penality? Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

To a lot of children, school is currently mostly a place to learn what you aren’t any good at.