Browsing Topic Best School Quotes

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can’t afford the time to think.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!

Never memorize something that you can look up.

Adversity is a good school.

Since every school in India teaches English, why can’t it be our link language? Why do Tamils have to study English for communication with the world and Hindi for communications within India? Do we need a big door for the big dog and a small door for the small dog? I say, let the small dog use the big door too!

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.

You can pay for school, but you can’t buy class.

Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.

A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires.

Education must be increasingly concerned about the fullest development of all children and youth, and it will be the responsibility of the schools to seek learning conditions which will enable each individual to reach the highest level of learning possible.

Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

The Masonic movement… is the custodian of the law; it is the home of the Mysteries and the seat of initiation. It holds in its symbolism the ritual of Deity, and the way of salvation is pictorially preserved in its work. It is a far more occult organization than can be realised, and is intended to be the training school for the coming advanced occultists. In its ceremonials lie hid the wielding of the forces connected with the growth and life of the kingdoms of nature and the unfoldment of the divine aspects in man.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.

I’m so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn’t make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle.

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers’ money.

You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

I been drunk most my life, don’t ask me why. Through ninth grade, I ain’t go to high school …I went to school high.

In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.

We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity ‘happiness’, and adversity ‘misery’ eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.

The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education?

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.