School Quotes

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

~ Jane Goodall

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

~ Michelle Obama

In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

~ Malala Yousafzai

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

~ Albio Sires

Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.

~ Judy Biggert

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

~ Josephine Baker

If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.

~ Kathy Reichs

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

~ Maya Angelou

My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.

~ Eric Idle

The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school.

~ Robert Shapiro

Somewhere in Rwanda, a rural farmer is dreaming of providing an education for her children. Not just high school, but maybe even a university degree. Such a dream used to seem out of reach.

~ Sylvia Mathews Burwell

I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

~ Malala Yousafzai

We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.

~ Bayard Rustin

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention.

~ Thomas Sowell

Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.

~ Jane Fonda

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.

~ Wendy Davis

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

~ Elizabeth Blackwell

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

~ Joe Baca

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

~ Clay Aiken

I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.

~ Christine Lagarde

The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.

~ Adam Davidson

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

~ Stephen Covey

A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.

~ Flea

Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.

~ Mary Calderone

But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.

~ Mark Kennedy

Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.

~ Arne Duncan

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.

~ J. C. Watts

I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.

~ Denise Juneau

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

~ Bunker Roy

The primary school I attended in Shanghai was a very liberal one, established by scholars who had return from an education in France. The children of leading families were enrolled there, including the son of a well-known man believed to be a top gangster of the underworld!

~ Charles K. Kao

Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.

~ Flea

Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.

~ Malala Yousafzai

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

~ Mary J. Blige

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

~ Ann Bancroft

Let's focus on how we can take someone who is being poorly educated in an American public school and how they are poorly trained for a job, and put in place those opportunities for them to get that education, give their parents choice in education, make it real for them.

~ Michael Steele

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

~ Janet Napolitano

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

~ Julian Bond

While I appreciated the educational advantages I enjoyed in the school and was proud of what I could show in mental culture, I had an earnest desire for something more than a mere business education... I desired to study for a profession, and this prompted me to leave my native state.

~ Hiram Rhodes Revels