Good School Quotes

• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Education, School, Boys

  Reginald in Russia (1910) "The Baker's Dozen"

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• Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

  Heinrich Heine

  Learning, School, Experience

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• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  Gail Godwin

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

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• Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

  Deborah Meier

  Inspirational, Family, Education

  Deborah Meier (2002). “The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem”, p.38, Beacon Press

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• Inspiration, hunger: these are the qualities that drive good schools. The best we educational planners can do is to create the most likely conditions for them to flourish, and then get out of their way.

  Ted Sizer

  Educational, Inspiration, School

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• Adversity is a good school.

  Charlotte Bronte

  School, Adversity, Trouble

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• A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

  Kate Reardon

  School, Resilience, Teach

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• Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives.

  Donald L. Carcieri

  School, Fabric, Economy

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• It is not time to tell the leaders to realize how important education is - they already know it - their own children are in good schools. Now it is time to call them to take action.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Children, School, Leader

  Malala Yousafzai's acceptance speech for Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.ndtv.com. December 10, 2014.

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• You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

  Eli Broad

  Teacher, School, Ifs

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• I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

  James Denton

  School, Class, Training

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• After the war people said, 'If you can plan for war, why can't you plan for peace?' When I was 17, I had a letter from the government saying, 'Dear Mr. Benn, will you turn up when you're 17 1/2? We'll give you free food, free clothes, free training, free accommodation, and two shillings, ten pence a day to just kill Germans.' People said, well, if you can have full employment to kill people, why in God's name couldn't you have full employment and good schools, good hospitals, good houses?

  Tony Benn

  War, School, Names

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• A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

  Cotton Mather

  School, Aggravation, Salt

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• A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.

  Benjamin Franklin

  School, Patriotic, Support

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• One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Education, Priests, Thousand

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1883). “Popular edition of col. Ingersoll's lectures. (Freethought publ. co.'s ed.).”

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• We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

  Evelyn Waugh

  School, Class, Literature

  Decline and Fall (1928) pt. 1, ch. 1

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• We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.

  Rick Perry

  Believe, Health, School

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• What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record?

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Real, School

  "CNN's Jim Acosta Plays Up Romney 'Falling off Message' on Obama and Treason". Interview with Jim Acosta, www.newsbusters.org. May 8, 2012.

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• If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  School, Kids, Poor

  Interview with Anderson Cooper, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. March 7, 2013.

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• Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.

  James C. Collins

  Good Life, School, Keys

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• Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.

  Charley Pride

  School, Golf, Cowboy

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• Maybe for John McCain the American dream means seven houses-and if that's your America, John McCain is your candidate. But for the rest of us, the American dream means one home - in a safe neighborhood, with good schools and good health care and a little money left over every month to go out for dinner and save for the future. Does that seem like too much to ask? John McCain thinks it is.

  Tim Kaine

  Dream, Home, School

  "Kaine's two America's" by Ben Smith, www.politico.com. August 28, 2008.

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• Margaret Thatcher has one great advantage - she is a daughter of the people and looks trim, as the daughter of the people desire to be. Shirley Williams has such an advantage over her because she's a member of the upper-middle class and can achieve the kitchen-sink revolutionary look that one cannot get unless one has been to a really good school.

  Rebecca West

  Daughter, School, Class

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• Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.

  John W. Gardner

  Mean, School, Cutting

  John W. Gardner (1971). “The Recovery of Confidence”

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