Social Studies Quotes

• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

  Tracy Kidder

  Writing, Copying, Done

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• Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Art, Children, School

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• I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.

  Connor Jessup

  Philosophy, Issues, Law

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• Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.

  Peter Farb

  School, Way, Taught

  Peter Farb (1968). “Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State”

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• My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

  Rich Sommer

  Class, Study, Social

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• So-called 'higher education' is a veritable magnet for second-raters and actively destructive parasites bent on promoting unsound ideas to the inexperienced and gullible. The concentrate in areas like social studies, literature, and art - where opinion reigns supreme. And I find their opinions almost universally appalling.

  Doug Casey

  Art, Ideas, Literature

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• In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created.

  Paul Smith

  Book, Class, Paper

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• Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

  Warren Farrell

  Art, Children, Teaching

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• Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making.

  Richard Louv

  Art, Nature, Math

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.162, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I have nothing to fear from serious social studies of science, and I hope that my philosophy will help progressive science policies while showing that the most modern views of science are ignorant and regressive, even if they are accompanied by a leftist-sounding rhetoric.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophy, Views, Ignorant

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the result of Common Core? And it's not. It's not. Common Core does not deal with social studies. It's basically writing and math.

  Megyn Kelly

  Teaching, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Teacher, Writing, School

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.140, Macmillan

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• I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone to sit next to. A predator approaches: gray jock buzz cut, whistle around a neck thicker than his head. Probably a social studies teacher, hired to coach a blood sport.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sports, Teacher, Zebras

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.5, Macmillan

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• What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.

  John Mayer

  Character, Home, Interesting

  "John Mayer talks life on the road, latest album". Interview with Jessi Savino, 2007.

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• Any day you had gym class was a weird school day. It started off normal. You had English, Social Studies, Geometry, then suddenly your in Lord of the Flies for 40 minutes. Your hanging from a rope, you have hardly any clothes on, teachers are yelling at you, kids are throwing dodge balls at you and snapping towels - you're trying to survive. And then it's Science,Language, and History. Now that is a weird day.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.

  Judy Woodruff

  Teaching, School, Years

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• We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies-all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history-we all learn them at the movies.

  Jack Nicholson

  Kissing, Study, Drink

  "Riffs on life, in the key of Jack". Interview with Rachel Abramowitz, articles.latimes.com. November 03, 2002.

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