George Carlin Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• The things they don't tell you in schools these days, geez. Have a look at your owners. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice; you have owners. They own you. They own everything.

  George Carlin

  School, Ideas, Giving

• People think life is real complicated. Actually, there's nothing to it. Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.

  George Carlin

  Real, School, Simple

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.176, Hachette UK

• I don't think drugs are a problem; I think they're a symptom. As long as Americans are empty, spiritually, emotionally, morally empty, they will need things like the drugs they choose to use. Mankind has wanted to change the way it felt from the beginning anyway. In this country there are even more reasons to want to feel different, to want to feel better, because this is such a neon sewer. This is such a degrading culture. It forces you to play Beethoven to your child in the uterus so that he will get into a better school and a better job and make more money so he can take care of you.

  George Carlin

  Country, Jobs, Children

• I had run away from home three times. I had been kicked out of three different schools under different circumstances. I was kicked out of everything that I didn't quit. Kicked out of schools. Kicked out of summer camp, the Boy Scouts, the altar boys, the choir, and something else that I can't think of, that I'm proud of. Anyway, that was my pattern. I just began to invent myself early in life, and went out and did something about it.

  George Carlin

  Summer, Running, School

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

• [On School Uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's not a new idea, either. I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand because the narration was in German.

  George Carlin

  School, Kids, Thinking

• I did a lot of thinking, and used mental activity to relieve whatever feelings I had. I became very left-brained, and I was good in school. That is, I was a smart kid.

  George Carlin

  Smart, School, Kids

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

• When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons.

  George Carlin

  School, Hygiene, Jersey

• In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems are breaking down, and I thought, What a wonderful thing; perhaps I can make some small contribution to this process, myself.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, School, Firsts

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

• I credit that eight years of grammar school with nourishing me in a direction where I could trust myself and trust my instincts. They gave me the tools to reject my faith. They taught me to question and think for myself and to believe in my instincts to such an extent that I just said, "This is a wonderful fairy tale they have going here, but it's not for me."

  George Carlin

  Believe, School, Thinking

  "The New York Times", August 20, 1995.

• This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen.

  George Carlin

  Art, Prayer, Father

• Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet.

  George Carlin

  School, Half, Alphabet

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

• When you quit school at an early age, I think you have a lifelong need to show the world - and maybe yourself - that you're really smart after all.

  George Carlin

  Being Yourself, Smart, School

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

• I went to my old school, where all the kids I'd been with for eight years were about to graduate. But the sisters wanted me to repeat the whole term; so I went to the principal and pleaded with her to allow me to graduate with my class. She finally agreed on the condition that I write the graduation play. It was called How Do You Spend Your Leisure Time?Catchy title, huh?

  George Carlin

  School, Kids, Writing

  Source: reprints.longform.org

• The fact that I didn't finish school left me with a lifelong need to prove that I'm smart, prove it to myself, maybe to the world. I [also] needed to be - not the center of attention - but I needed to be able to attract attention when I wanted it, through my stunts and my fooling around physically with faces or postures or voices I would do. Those things are important elements in the drive behind all of this [my career].

  George Carlin

  Smart, School, Careers

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time.

  George Carlin

  Running, Home, School

  Source: reprints.longform.org

• I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school.

  George Carlin

  Art, School, Different

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

• Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.

  George Carlin

  School, Independent, Thinking

• I literally didn't know my father. My mother had been a secretary, and after she and my father split, she went back to work for an advertising executive. So my older brother and I were "latch-door kids." We went home for lunch and after school by ourselves.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Source: reprints.longform.org

• My mother didn't get home until about seven most nights and, yes, there was a sense of being very alone after school. She gave me all the proper guidance and influences, but physically, she just couldn't be there.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Home, School

  Source: reprints.longform.org

• I think it would be fair and right to use some of my land and wealth for a drug-rehab center or an Indian school.

  George Carlin

  School, Thinking, Land

  Source: reprints.longform.org

• I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

  George Carlin

  School, Needs, Study

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

• I went to George Washington High School for six months before my 16th birthday, when I could legally quit. That was an even worse experience than the Catholic schools. I mean, they were still teaching fractions. But mostly, I played hooky.

  George Carlin

  Teaching, Mean, School

  Source: reprints.longform.org

• When I was in seventh grade, I was caught stealing money from the visiting team's locker room during a basketball game. So I was sent to The Brothers. That's what they called this parochial school up in Goshen, New York. I was supposed to get closer supervision there and more "masculine influence," whatever that means. But I was thrown out for telling a couple of really lame kids on the playground that I had heroin.

  George Carlin

  Basketball, Brother, New York

  Source: reprints.longform.org

• I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes

  George Carlin

  Mother, School, Kids

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