School System Quotes - Page 2

• The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Freedom, School, Differences

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.244, University of Toronto Press

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• One of the things I didn't like about school is that every time they told a story about a rich guy in school, he was an evil guy. Our school system is programming us to think the rich are greedy and evil.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  School, Thinking, Evil

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• It is imperative for US to parent our children and educate them outside of the school systems, as our education system was not designed to lift US out of oppression.

  T.I.

  Children, School, Parent

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• As long as the factories are in the hands of the whites, the housing is in the hands of the whites, the school system is in the hands of the whites, you have a situation where the blacks are constantly begging the whites can they use this or can they use that. That's not any kind of equality of opportunity, nor does it lend toward one's dignity.

  Malcolm X

  School, Opportunity, Hands

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• There are a lot of very religious scientists around. I think the problem here is that in our school systems, and to some degree - and this is where it is relevant - with school boards around the country that are mandating curriculums and textbooks, you start seeing this weird watering down of scientific fact so that our kids are growing up in an environment - and this connects to what I was saying earlier abou the media - where everything's contested. Where nothing is true.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Religious, Growing Up

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I believe, the NAACP began to try to organize parents of Negro children to file petitions with the boards of education regarding the integration of the school system. You had some very severe economic reprisals against people in Mississippi and in South Carolina. So, in order to try to help to meet some of the physical needs and the economic needs of people in Clarendon County [SC] who had been displaced from the land, and otherwise, and in certain sections of Mississippi, we organized in New York City something called "In Friendship".

  Ella Baker

  New York, Children, Believe

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• That thing, multiculturalism, has basically taken over the curriculum, or what is taught in the public school system.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Taken, School, Curriculum

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Psychotherapy makes every problem a subjective, inner problem. And that's not where the problems come from. They come from the environment, the cities, the economy, the racism. They come from architecture, school systems, capitalism, exploitation. They come from many places that psychotherapy does not address. Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong.

  James Hillman

  School, Cities, Racism

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.

  Bruce Springsteen

  School, Different, Type

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• We have multiple Black men and women losing their lives simply for being. Who gets to say you don't get to live anymore? I don't understand that. And it doesn't stop there. Can we go into the school system and look at the imbalance of what our children are learning? We are functioning crazy, people.

  Regina Belle

  Children, Crazy, School

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I studied trumpet for almost 15 years and was performing with a professional concert marching band in parades and rodeos. I was headed back east to study music, and if I hadn't been intrigued with the Native American flute, I suppose I'd now be jockeying for first chair of the brass section of some orchestra, or perhaps I'd be teaching music in a school system.

  R. Carlos Nakai

  Teaching, Native American, School

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• Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system. It's our common property. There is nobody's name on it. Nobody can make money on it. It's not copywritten.

  Utah Phillips

  School, Names, National Parks

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• In our country, the problem we have in our public school system across the country is that music and arts are on the bottom of the pole, if it's there at all. So the kids aren't exposed to music. I must speak to the music they hear at home too.

  Ramsey Lewis

  Country, Art, Home

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• I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs. In that sense, psychotherapy belongs in the schools.

  Albert Ellis

  Children, School, Thinking

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• Through song you learn, and I think school systems need to learn that. Through the rhythm you can learn better, through melody, with something you need to learn, it's a vehicle for it.

  Steven Tyler

  Song, School, Thinking

  "Q&A With Aerosmith: Steven Tyler 'Itching' to Make Solo Album". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.rollingstone.com. June 20, 2013.

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• For decades, the public school system failed too many children, so we passed the No Child Left Behind Act and demanded schools show results in return for money.

  George W. Bush

  Children, School, Return

  "President Bush in Georgia". President Bush's speech at a Georgia rally, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2006.

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• We are watching people who've been educated in the public school system and in colleges for the last 25 or 30 years become adults. They're getting jobs as TV commentators and journalists and writers and editors and producers in the media. And we're simply seeing the product of what they've been taught. And they so hate what they've been told is America's history and past that they want everybody to know they disagree with it and they've got nothing to do with it, and they had nothing to do with it, and don't blame them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Hate, School

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.

  Shannon Miller

  School, Cutting, Physical Education

  "Chat: Shannon Miller". Interview with Peter Gambaccini, www.runnersworld.com. October 23, 2006.

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• It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, School, Years

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• Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

  Conan O'Brien

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write.

  Christopher Paolini

  Teacher, Writing, School

  "Christopher Paolini: 'Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon'" by Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2011.

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• In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Strong, School, Kids

  "Lupe Fiasco on Freedom". Interview with Lisa Bonner, www.ebony.com. June 28, 2012.

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• I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.

  Eliot Spitzer

  School, Thinking, Nuts

  Interview with Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.

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• When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.

  Clarence Thomas

  Real, School, People

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• As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  School, Ignorance, Mean

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

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