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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There are places on Earth, in every country, where, for various reasons, good schools cannot be built and good teachers cannot or do not want to go.

  Sugata Mitra

  Country, Teacher, School

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• A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  School, Catholic, Saint

  Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI to pupils, w2.vatican.va. September 17, 2010.

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• Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.

  Laozi

  Education, Wise, Smart

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• If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, School, Agreement

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• Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

  Alphonso Jackson

  School, Black, Progress

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• I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.

  Al Franken

  Jobs, Growing Up, Kids

  "Fighting For America’s Middle Class, Netroots Nation 2011" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.

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• It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Children, School, Gun

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• Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.

  Linda Lingle

  Jobs, Heart, School

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• I'm going to guess Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, all want clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. I'm sure most people think women should be paid the same as men if they're doing the same job. I think we all want good schools for our kids. If we made that list, we actually are in agreement on more things.

  Michael Moore

  Jobs, School, Kids

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• If you ask for good schools, you aren't likely to get them. If you ask for jobs or economic investment, you won't get that either. But what we have learned, is that the one thing that poor folks of color can ask for and get are Police & Prisons.

  Michelle Alexander

  Jobs, School, Color

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• When you come from the working class and you do well enough whereby you can provide a little bit better for your family, get a decent roof over their head and send them to a good school, that's considered a good thing.

  Michael Moore

  School, Class, Littles

  "Michael and me". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2004.

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• I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.

  Kevin Plank

  Team, School, Guy

  "A $10 Business". "I Am American Business" Interview, www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

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• If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Children, School, Pay

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.262, Da Capo Press

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• The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

  Karl Lehmann

  School, Years, Long

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• I went to good schools, and I've just always had an allergic reaction to snobbishness - always found myself preferring to blend into the woodwork. I have an affinity to those who, in a sense, failed.

  Larry Fessenden

  School, Snobbishness

  Source: film.avclub.com

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