Secondary School Quotes - Page 2

• In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse students about evolution and may lead them to reject one of the major themes in science.

  Eugenie Scott

  School, Exercise, Thinking

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• My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.

  Maria Montessori

  School, Mean, Visions Of The Future

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• It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

  Paul Nurse

  School, Abandoned, My Time

  "Sir Paul Nurse - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. 2008.

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• At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

  Paul Nurse

  School, Boys, Age

  Autobiography by Paul Nurse, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.

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• In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.

  Andrew Garfield

  Sports, School, Floating

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• There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Country, School, White

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• Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.

  George Weah

  Jobs, Children, Growing Up

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• We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.

  Donna Shalala

  Taken, School, Skills

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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