School Quotes - Page 4

• Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

  Robert Frost

  Education, Philosophy, Teaching

  Recalled on his death, 29 Jan 1963.

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• When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.

  Paul Simon

  Education, Learning, Thinking

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• In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.

  Clint Eastwood

  Journey, Goes On

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• If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

  Lenny Bruce

  Jesus, Children, Years

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• I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

  Kris Allen

  Fans, Music Education, Grew Up

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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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• Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, Years

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• A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Motivational Sports, College

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• When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

  Jack Nicholson

  Awards, Pimples, Gross

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• People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Love, Sunday, People

  "Excerpt: 'Assault on Reason'", abcnews.go.com. May 22, 2007.

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• My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

  Denzel Washington

  Mother, Home, Gave Up

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• To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Women, Speak

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• What luck for rulers that men do not think.

  Adolf Hitler

  Work, Stupid People, Men

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• One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Years, Mind

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.346, Running Press

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• Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?

  Stephen King

  Fire, People, Lines

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• But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Education, Boys, Personality

  Reginald in Russia (1910) "The Baker's Dozen"

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• In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess.

  Henny Youngman

  Education, Teaching, Sassy

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• When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

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• No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Clueless, Learning, Bad Ass

  Interview with Jim Clash, uk.askmen.com. August 23, 2012.

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• I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Kids, Mlb

  "Yogi Berra: The greatest financial planner ever?" by Ric Edelman, www.cnbc.com. January 25, 2016.

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• I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.

  Bear Bryant

  Player, Alabama, Signing

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• You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

  Virginia Woolf

  Boys, Order

  Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (1977). “1920-1924”, Chatto & Windus

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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• Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.

  Richard Allington

  Education, Book, Expectations

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• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Thank You, Education, Thankful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

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