School Education Quotes - Page 4

• The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Leadership, Education, Teacher

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.470, Best Books on

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• A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Graduation, Senior, Education

  "Art of Communicating Ideas". Book by William Joseph Grace, p. 389, 1952.

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• Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

  Robert Frost

  Education, Philosophy, Teaching

  Recalled on his death, 29 Jan 1963.

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• School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

  Ivan Illich

  Education, Believe, Learning

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• A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government.

  John Stuart Mill

  Education And Freedom, Government, People

  John Stuart Mill (1978). “On Liberty”, Penguin Books

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• Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Dog, School

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.46, Chartwell

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• I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

  Agatha Christie

  Education, Children, Learning

  Agatha Christie (2010). “An Autobiography”, p.62, HarperCollins UK

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  If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

  Rachel Carson

  Life, Motivational, Family

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Education, Sex

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• The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

  John Updike

  Education, Children, Father

  John Updike (1963). “The Centaur”, Ballantine Books

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• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Food, Inspiration

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 5, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Art, Philosophy

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.356, Psychology Press

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• Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  School, Feel Good, Healthy

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Medicine as a Profession for Women”, p.6, Library of Alexandria

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• My Big Mama is my No. 1 financial role model. Much of my advice stems from what she taught me. She never made more than $13,000 a year, yet she paid off her home before she retired. She saved money from every paycheck. She taught me to be skeptical. It makes me cry to think that I'm a nationally syndicated personal finance columnist for one of the world's best newspapers and my core advice comes from my black grandmother who was a nurse's aide with just a high school education.

  Michelle Singletary

  Home, School, Grandmother

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• [My mother] worked at thrift stores and she didn't have a high school education. She sacrificed everything she had for me and my brothers. I never went without. She showed me that she could put food on the table, buy us Jordans, we had the best clothes and she worked two-three odd jobs.

  Cory Hardrict

  Mother, Brother, Jobs

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a lesser extent, American government, often initiated by talent scouts specially sent over here to buy British brains and preempt them for service of the U.S.A. ... I look forward earnestly to the day when some reform of the American system of school education enables them to produce their own scientists so that, in an aimiable free trade of talent, there may be adequate interchange between our country and theirs, and not a one-way traffic.

  Lord Hailsham

  Country, School, Science

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• My mother didn't feel sorry for herself, she was left with no child support, no alimony at a very young age, with a child to raise, a high school education and she just figured it out. She didn't complain, she didn't rely upon government, she relied upon her own skill set, her own self confidence, her own drive in moxie and her own duty to me and her and she relied upon her family and her faith.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Mother, Sorry, Children

  CPAC Interview, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. February 23, 2017.

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• And so with Hemingway's writing, he famously wrote to one of his publishers - he said, you don't need a high school education to enjoy my writing. And it's going to titillate the masses. I mean, anybody can relate to it, but the style is so revolutionary that it will titillate highbrow critics, which it did.

  Lesley M. M. Blume

  Mean, Writing, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

  Rory Bremner

  School, Class, Childhood

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• When it comes to public school education, we have been unwilling to measure our results. We've been unwilling to pay based on performance. We have tenure where, even if you can't teach, you can't get fired. We've been unwilling to invest in new schools.

  Michael Bloomberg

  School, Pay, Results

  "Global Public Square" with Fareed Zakaria, globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com. November 2, 2008.

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• Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the pending extermination of man by man on this planet. Without love, no armament, no war, no diplomatic machinations, no coercive police force, no school education, no economic or political measures, not even hydrogen bombs can prevent the pending catastrophe.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Love, Education, War

  Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (2002). “The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation”, p.12, Templeton Foundation Press

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• Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Children, Growing Up, School

  Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee, archive.org. 1875.

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• My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Education, School, Hobbies

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• Look, we ought to do this for our kids... We ought to have a high school so that every kid who grows up here - they're all our kids - gets a good high school education.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Growing Up, School, Kids

  "Why you should care about other people’s kids". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. March 19, 2015.

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• Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always got much sicker until she went away. It wasn’t that she was ugly, or had bad breath or a bad personality. She was a perfectly nice, standard-issue, brown-haired, white woman with a high school education. She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone through so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn’t really like life at all.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mother, Nice, School

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