Best School Quotes

• 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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• Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

  Oscar Wilde

  Graduation, Education, Time

  Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

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• Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love, School, Tuition

  Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.122, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves.

  Sugata Mitra

  Teacher, Children, School

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• I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under the best teachers, learning the best things, in the best possible manner. O death! We thank thee for the light that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Love, Teacher, Children

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• The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

  Gilbert Highet

  Hate, School, Boys

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is.

  John Engler

  Educational, School, Needs

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• Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

  Michael Bloomberg

  School, World, Wells

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• White folks are the luckiest people: Finally a black president and he's a behaved one. Went to the best schools, best colleges, never raises his voice. I ran for president in 1968. I tell (audiences) if I won, I would have dug up the Rose Garden and planted watermelon!

  Dick Gregory

  School, College, Garden

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• The Bible is the best of books, and I wish it were in the hands of every one. It is indispensable to the safety and permanence of our institutions. A free government can not exist without religion and morals, and there cannot be morals without religion. Especially should the Bible be placed in the hands of the young. It is the best school book in the world. I would that all our people were brought up under the influence of that holy book.

  Zachary Taylor

  Education, Book, School

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• African American children are significantly more likely to be obese than are white children. Nearly half of African American children will develop diabetes at some point in their lives. People, that's half of our children. ...We can build our kids the best schools on earth, but if they don't have the basic nutrition they need to concentrate, they're still going to have a challenge learning.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Kids, School

  "Michelle Obama Dons Dots At NAACP Convention", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2010.

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• Kids should go to college, but they should go to the best school they can afford to get through with minimal or no debt. That might mean going to a community college or an inexpensive local state school. Whatever it takes.

  Mark Cuban

  Mean, Kids, School

  Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Holland I think is the best school to learn football. I think its a great league for that because it's not the strongest league in Europe.

  Rafael van der Vaart

  Football, School, Thinking

  The Soccer Bible Interview, www.soccerbible.com. March 20, 2014.

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• President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to some of the best schools in this country - schools that train you how to run the political paradigm, not challenge it. The leaders of the Black Power Movement were challenging that paradigm.

  Danny Glover

  Running, Country, School

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. February 8, 2012.

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• I always maintain that playing in an orchestra intelligently is the best school for democracy. If you play a solo, the conductor and everybody in the orchestra follows you. Then, a few bars later, the main voice goes to another instrument, another group, and then you have to go back into the collective [sound]. The art of playing in an orchestra is being able to express yourself to the maximum but always in relation to something else that is going on.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Art, School, Play

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• Growing up knowing that I wanted to be a sportscaster and knowing that the best school in the country was right in my back yard, I certainly knew all there was to know about Marty Glickman and about people like Bob Costas and Marv Albert and all of the other greats that have passed through there.

  Beth Mowins

  Country, Growing Up, School

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• I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's the reason I started to write music for films. I never studied. There are film and music school that teach you how to write music. I never studied that. But the influence of opera, which is a combination of storyline, visuals, staging, plus music... that was perhaps the best school I could have had. That's what gave me the idea of coming to Hollywood to write music for films.

  Lalo Schifrin

  School, Writing, Thinking

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• Virtually all families in the middle of the earnings distribution aspire to send their children to a school of at least average quality. (We'd think ill of any parent whose aspirations were lower.) The rub is that the best schools tend to be located in more expensive neighborhoods.

  Bob Frank

  Children, School, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.

  Joseph Nye

  School, Democracy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Mastery is not a function of I.Q. or natural talent or wealthy parents who can send you to the best school, but rather the result of going through a learning process, fueled by the desire to grow and the persistence to push past any obstacles.

  Robert Greene

  School, Persistence, Past

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• Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

  Pietro Metastasio

  School, Wind, Way

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• How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages.

  Russell Baker

  Education, Children, Home

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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• The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

  Samuel Smiles

  Home, School, Discipline

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

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