School Life Quotes

• Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.

  Winona Ryder

  Movie, Stars, Children

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• All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

  Roald Dahl

  Senior, School, Boys

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.137, Penguin

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• I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.

  Vanessa Lachey

  School, Thinking, Balance

  "Vanessa Minnillo: 'When I Was 17'". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. October 1, 2008.

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• The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Graduation, Education, Wall

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

  Tom Bodett

  Life, Encouraging, Education

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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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  True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Funny, Running, Country

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.88, RosettaBooks

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• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

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  I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Leadership, Education

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

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• Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Success, Education

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.44, Princeton University Press

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• The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Book, School

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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• Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

  Dana Scott

  Education, Learning, School

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• You can get all A's and still flunk life.

  Walker Percy

  Education, School, Life Learning

  "Don't Overdo Graduation Speech". www.altoonamirror.com. May 24, 2015.

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• Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

  John W. Gardner

  Education, Flower, Teaching

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• It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  School, Wire, Easier

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.108, Macmillan

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• In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Graduation

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.26, St. Martin's Press

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• Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

  Jacques Barzun

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  1955 In Newsweek, 5 Dec.

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• The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

  Mortimer Adler

  Inspirational, Positive, Teaching

  "The Leisure Alternatives Catalog: Food for Mind & Body". Book by Joseph Allen, 1979.

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• Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

  Edward Everett

  Education, Freedom, War

  "The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer" edited by William B. Fowle, 1852.

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• Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

  John Dewey

  Life, Inspiring, Education

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• My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.

  Paul Merton

  School, Past, Years

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• I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

  Alan Moore

  School, Opportunity, Thinking

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• School is a foretaste of life.

  Georg Brandes

  School

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Lesson #456 of high school life: Never, EVER trust an alarm clock.

  Heather Brewer

  School, Alarms, Lessons

  Heather Brewer (2009). “Tenth Grade Bleeds #3: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.62, Penguin

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• In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.

  Neal Barnard

  School, Eggs, Meat

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