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.

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.

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

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

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

Never memorize something that you can look up.

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

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.

My best life lessons and education didn’t come from a classroom – they’ve come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.

You don’t have to be angry, you don’t have to be too cool for school. You can just have a good time and dance like no one’s watching. Just enjoy life.

How about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U.S, who aren’t fanatical, who don’t punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?

You understand Teacher, don’t you, that when you have a mother who’s an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don’t know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.

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.

My biggest downfall is my inner voice. Growing up as a dancer makes you very judgemental with yourself. You learn to look at yourself in the mirror and you criticise every line in your body. It’s never perfect. I grew up with this because I had ballet every day in school.

Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we’d have to learn it in school, we’d to learn the catechism by rote.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them – the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

The longer I live, the more I’m convinced the world is just one big high school, with the cool kids always targeting the uncool.

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

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. … Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.

For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you’ve got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday’s and today’s school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

If you’re a kid who was not especially a star in your high school, I recommend going to a college in the middle of nowhere. I got all the attention I could ever have wanted.

I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland – I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.

I don’t think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

School is cool. Thats why it rhymes

I’m seeing too many kind of socially awkward kids that get through schools and then they can’t hold a job because they haven’t learned the discipline of get up in the morning.

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids – all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.

However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years

My hope is to get young people to think about ways that they can translate hip-hop’s great cultural movement into political power that can change the conditions for America’s young, so that young people upon graduating from high school who don’t have economic means to go to college can realize other options beyond joining the military and fighting in wars that enrich corporations like Halliburton which should feel guilty about profiteering off of a war that is being fought on the backs of those locked out of America’s mainstream economy.

Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after ‘The Princess Diaries.’ It taught me that I don’t need Hollywood or a job to make me happy.