School Quotes - Page 5

• Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Education, Teacher, Measurement

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• You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

  Dr. Seuss

  Graduation, Being Single, Self Confidence

  Dr. Seuss (2017). “Oh, The Places You’ll Go”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Taken, Thinking, Mind

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.158, Prometheus Books

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• Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Cute

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• It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Life, Education, Teacher

  "Why Schools Don't Educate". John Taylor Gatto's New York City Teacher of the Year Acceptance Speech, www.naturalchild.org. January 31, 1990.

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• In the world of entrepreneurs, you don't need a college education. You need a proper education.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Graduation, Education, Learning

  Twitter post from Apr 14, 2017

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

  John Dewey

  Life, Inspiring, Education

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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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• I am 39 years old, and I still wake up every morning really excited I don't have to go to school.

  Sarah Silverman

  Morning, Years, Wake Up

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• Everyone has all different experiences in school. I just know that throughout my life, at no time did any teacher ever point to me and say, hey. He'll go far.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Different Experiences, Hey

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• When you spend time with your friends, what do you talk about? Those things which made an impression on you that day, that week ... I write stories the same way. Events at home, in school, at work, in the street, these are the bases for a story. Some experiences leave such a deep impression that instead of talking about them at the club I work them into a novel.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Writing, Home, Talking

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jan 01, 2013

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• If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!

  Bill Gates

  Fun, Waiting, Dollars

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• God brought me to Himself at about the age of 4. My parents were devout believers and my Dad was in Bible College at the time. I remember hearing the gospel in Sunday School and I talked to my Mom about it one night before bed. It was clear to me that I was a sinner and I was not going to heaven if I died without accepting Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross for me. I was brought to Christ out of fear of going to hell. I didn't want to go there if I died and there was only one other choice in my mind as a 4 year old. I wanted to go to heaven. It was and is that simple.

  Ben Zobrist

  Mom, Jesus, Dad

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• Get out of our schools God, get out of our textbooks God, get out of our government God, go away God, go away God, go away God, Katrina hits, God, where are you?

  Brad Stine

  Government, Going Away, Textbooks

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• The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things - and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.

  Thomas Sowell

  Self Esteem, Taken, Successful

  Thomas Sowell (2002). “Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• I didn't apply to different schools. I wasn't really sure what I was going to do.

  Frank Caliendo

  Different

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• I wish airplanes were more like elementary school with someone up front telling everyone to sit down and shut up.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Airplane, Wish, Down And

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• If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

  Benjamin Rush

  Bible, Christian, Education

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• Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.

  Bill Fagerbakke

  High School, Trouble, Athletics

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

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• I believe that sexual assault - if this is possible - was even more underreported when I was in school.

  Claire McCaskill

  Believe, Assault, Ifs

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

  Margaret Atwood

  Girl, Boys, Doors

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• I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past.

  John Lennon

  Attitude, Past, Sight

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• The Libertarian Party is a very mainstream party. It's a mainstream philosophy. It's of returning power from Washington to parents, to schools, to businesses in their communities.

  Bob Barr

  Philosophy, Party, Community

  "Libertarian Candidate Bob Barr Discusses Economic Crisis". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 20, 2008.

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• I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel." But I was never in public school and I was never really forced to do much of anything, as a kid.

  Ellar Coltrane

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius.

  James Cook

  Crazy, Reality, Luck

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