Secondary School Quotes

• Unfortunately, there are very few facilities which offer courses in the arts. Not all the secondary schools offer the subject for CXC examinations.

  St. Lucia

  Art, School, Examination

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

  Saffron Burrows

  School, Littles, Stuff

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• A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the Soviet Union. He had learnt it at elementary school; at secondary school; at his sports club; at the Komsomol; at the university; at a folk dancing course; at the chess-club.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Sports, Humorous

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• On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

  Andrzej Wajda

  School, Hands, Adults

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• I was literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all my life. I always, always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of twelve. I followed designer's careers. I knew Giorgio Armani was a window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro was a tailor.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Book, School

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• I, on the other hand, still might not be considered a proper adult. I had been very grown-up in primary school. But as I continued through secondary school, I in fact became less grown-up. And then as the years passed, I turned into quite a childlike person. I suppose I just wasn't able to ally myself with time.

  Hiromi

  School, Hands, Years

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• We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, 'schooling,' but historically that isn’t true in either an intellectual or a financial sense. And plenty of people throughout the world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to a system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prison.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Country, School, Thinking

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• Research shows us that children who are read to from a very early age are more likely to begin reading themselves at an early age. They're more likely to excell in school. They're more likely to graduate secondary school and go to college.

  Laura Bush

  Children, Book, Reading

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• I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

  Fritz Sauckel

  School, Elementary School

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• When I was studying in secondary school, a teacher recommended me during a singing contest. I took the championship because of my voce that I take proud of. Then I thought maybe my voice is not bad,then I wanted to be a singer.

  Daesung

  Teacher, School, Voice

  Source: bigbangsites.blogspot.com

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• If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World.

  John Pilger

  Real, School, People

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• The state of our educational system is a disgrace to our country. We have an elementary and secondary school system in which close to half of the youngsters never graduate properly. It's a disgrace that there is more illiteracy today than there was 100 years ago.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Educational, School

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I am going around British secondary schools, as a gay man talking about my life, and encouraging schools to get rid of homophobic bullying and to care for their gay members of staff and their gay students.

  Ian Mckellen

  Bullying, School, Gay

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, School, Years

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.7, Best Books on

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• When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.

  Alfred Molina

  School, Boys, Growth

  "I give good foreign". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2004.

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• Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.

  George Weah

  Jobs, Children, Growing Up

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• There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Country, School, White

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• In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.

  Andrew Garfield

  Sports, School, Floating

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• I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don't have to explain anything to them. I don't have to apologize for anything. They know. There's no judgment in any way.

  Emma Watson

  Girlfriend, School, Two

  FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Jan 09, 2013

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• Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

  David Brin

  School, Prison, Crime

  David Brin (2009). “Earth”, p.367, Spectra

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• I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.

  John Hume

  Educational, School, Independent

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse students about evolution and may lead them to reject one of the major themes in science.

  Eugenie Scott

  School, Exercise, Thinking

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• My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.

  Maria Montessori

  School, Mean, Visions Of The Future

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• It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

  Paul Nurse

  School, Abandoned, My Time

  "Sir Paul Nurse - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. 2008.

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• At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

  Paul Nurse

  School, Boys, Age

  Autobiography by Paul Nurse, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.

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