Great Schools Quotes - Page 2

• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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• Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Leadership, Education, Teaching

  Attributed; no source found

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• Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

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• The mission of a great school is not to cram you with facts so that you can regurgitate them...This gives many boys such a distaste for learning that they never read another book as long as they live. No, the mission is to inspire you with a taste for scholarship - a taste which will last you all your life.

  David Ogilvy

  Book, School, Boys

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• Stony Brook is a great school scholastically and I enjoyed my time there. It taught me a lot about life and about the future that I am living now. It is an honor to have graduated from there and to be recognized as an alumnus.

  Chris Algieri

  School, Honor, Taught

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• The examination of conscience has an important educational value. it teaches us to look sincerely at our own lives, to compare them with the truth of the Gospel and to evaluate them with parameters that are not only human but drawn from divine Revelation. Comparison with the Commandments, with the Beatitudes, and above all with the Precept to love, represents the first great 'school of penance

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Educational, School, Important

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• I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. I gained from the discipline there.

  Mark Harmon

  Military, School, Discipline

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• Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray
  Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way.
  We mortals are composed of two great schools
  Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.

  Al-Maʿarri

  Christian, Religious, School

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• The Psalter is the great school of prayer.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Prayer, School

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2007). “I Want to Live These Days with You: A Year of Daily Devotions”, p.54, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted the education to be influenced by their religion, so I was going to these halfway education-slash-Christian schools that were like pop-up shop-style education.

  Katy Perry

  Christian, Believe, School

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• The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.

  Rick Perry

  Strong, Jobs, School

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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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• When I first started, I would go to Weist-Barron, and I studied with Rita Litton and ACTeen. For teenagers, it's a really, really great school. We did a lot of on-camera stuff, so you see yourself and what you do on camera.

  Daniella Alonso

  Teenager, School, Stuff

  "Daniella Alonso: A Back Stage Exclusive". Interview with Noah Laracy, www.backstage.com. September 28, 2010.

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• Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.

  Richard Attias

  Sports, School, People

  "The Olympics and the Spirit of Sport" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.

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• Fifty years ago, great schools like the University of California and the City University of New York - as well as many state colleges - were tuition free. Today college is unaffordable for many working class families. For the sake of our economy and millions of Americans, we must make higher education more affordable.

  Bernie Sanders

  New York, School, College

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• I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

  Donald Trump

  School, Students, Finance

  "Trump Fires Back at Obama Campaign Smear" by Steve Coz, www.newsmax.com. August 19, 2012.

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• I was pretty lucky, I went to a really great school. I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

  Zoe Kravitz

  School, Who I Am, People

  "Exclusive Q&A: Zoe Kravitz & Ezra Miller". Interview with Laura Rosenfeld, www.seventeen.com. August 22, 2011.

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• I went to great schools. Wharton School, a lot of great places.

  Donald Trump

  School

  Source: townhall.com

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• Look I'm politically correct, I went to a great school, I was a good student, look, I'm a smart guy.

  Donald Trump

  Smart, School, Guy

  Source: www.economist.com

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• News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. Newspapers might employ these periods searching for the breeding grounds of news, but they prefer to fill up with stories about Kurdled Kurds or Calvin Coolidge, until the banks close or a Hitler marches, when they are as surprised as their readers.

  A. J. Liebling

  School, Years, Long

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• Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Children, School

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• But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  School, Bangs, Life Is

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• This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.

  Sivananda

  Teacher, Yoga, School

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• Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.

  Ann Brashares

  Soccer, Stars, School

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.188, Delacorte Press

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