School Quotes

With diligent practice, you will be an expert.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Success comes with failure which leads to doubts but with determination we can still achieve.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Like taking a breath, learning was the simple and extraordinary result of being alive.

~ Zander Sherman

At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the 'harmony of Genesis and Geology.' Like all hypocrites, these men overstate the case to such a degree, and so turn and pervert facts and words that they succeed only in gaining the applause of other hypocrites like themselves. Among the great scientists they are regarded as generals regard sutlers who trade with both armies.Surely the time must come when the wealth of the world will not be wasted in the propagation of ignorant creeds and miraculous mistakes. The time must come when churches and cathedrals will be dedicated to the use of man; when minister and priest will deem the discoveries of the living of more importance than the errors of the dead; when the truths of Nature will outrank the 'sacred' falsehoods of the past, and when a single fact will outweigh all the miracles of Holy Writ.Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then, and not until then, will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher, become a real and blessed truth.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Setting a goal is like to set your destination point in your life GPS which could take you to your desire position as you dreamed about...

~ Rashedur Ryan Rahman

Graduate study is an intensive education. You have to be diligent and determined from the beginning to the very end.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You will create yourself with continuous self-education.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading illuminates our path with the brightest light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self education is holy mission.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Stay strong. Focus on the ultimate goal.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The quest for learning is the quest for self-discovery.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I feel like we can do something really cool to this world. And I fear - at twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five - we might forget.

~ Marina Keegan

Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophical life as well as his intellectual life, and at the end of school, like Turing, Zuse found himself to be something of an outsider—to the disappointment of his very conventional parents, he no longer believed in God or religion.(Jane Smiley (2010). The Man Who Invented the Computer)

~ Konrad Zuse

I hate reading poems—school made me hate them. I’d spend hours interpreting one, just to read the memorandum and realize I’d be fucked during exams. I remember making a little asterisk next to every question I struggled with, and at the end of the paper, I’d realize I was looking at the fucking Milky Way.

~ Danielle Esplin

I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me ...

~ Markus Zusak

I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

Do you know that feeling? When everything you do seems like a struggle. Where you dont wanna leave the house because you know everyone is judging you. Where you cant even ask for directions in fear that they critise you. Where everyone always seems to be picking out your flaws. That feeling where you feel so damn sick for no reason.Do you know that feeling where you look in the mirror and completly hate what you see. When you grab handfuls and handfuls of fat and just want to cut it all off. That feeling when you see other beautiful girls and just wish you looked like them. When you compare yourself to everyone you meet. When you realise why no one ever showed intrest in you. That feeling where you become so self conscious you dont even turn up at school. That feeling when you feel so disappointed in who you are and everything you have become. That feeling when every bite makes you wanna be sick. When hunger is more satifying that food. The feeling of failure when you eat a meal. Do you know that feeling when you cant run as far as your class. Fear knowing that everyone thinks of you as theUnfit FAT BITCH That feeling when you just wanna let it all out but you dont wanna look weak. The fear you have in class when you dont understand something but your too afraid to ask for help. The feeling of being to ashamed to stand up for yourself. Do you know the feeling when your deepest fear becomes a reality. Fear that you will NEVER be good enough. When you feel as if you deserve all the pain you give yourself. When you finally understand why everyone hates you. FINALLY realising the harsh truth. Understanding that every cut, every burn, every bruise you have even given yourself, you deserved. In fact you deserved worse. That feeling when you believe you deserve constant and brutal pain. Do you know what it feels like to just want to give up. When you just want all the pain to end but you want it to continue? Or am i just insane

~ Anonymous.

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

~ Sylvia Plath

I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.

~ Sylvia Plath

You ought to endure and complete your own race of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

~ Criss Jami

They don't have regular time at school, you know. They have periods. All of a sudden an alarm goes off and you're supposed to drop what you're doing and rush off to a different room with a different teacher to do something completely different! How can anybody learn like that?

~ Gordon Korman

DYING IS NOT HOTBy Celia the DarkCool is no longer cool because cool is now hot,and school isn't school if you are skipping.Then the neighborhood is school and John,the creepy dropout guy is teaching.And it isn't cool because the cool kids stay in school,where the other cool kids tell them them how hot they areand they wouldn't want to miss a dance for cutting.Kids who skip school were never cool or hot butalready dumped into the trashcan with leftover lunch pizza,bruised into a locker, asking their parents for extra lunch moneyso they can smoke and act like they never cared anyway.And skipping school's not cool but it is schoolbecause that's where they learn what the uncool learnabout life and dying.

~ Karen Finneyfrock

If you can't explain why someone should pay attention to what you're saying, maybe you shouldn't be saying it.

~ Dave Burgess

I find some things difficult to grasp. I need to be shown or taught a few different ways sometimes before I figure it out

~ Tina J. Richardson

Maybe it doesn’t matter how smart you are or aren’t, but how much you are willing to learn.

~ Geetanjali Mukherjee

Success is shown to us as a straight line, heading in one direction, up. There are no detours, no turn-arounds, no missteps allowed. ... When you aren’t allowed to fail, either due to the expectations of others or yourself, although it may seem like you are being pragmatic and focusing on how to succeed, you are actually making it that much harder for yourself.

~ Geetanjali Mukherjee

If we are put here on this earth for our learning, then it's safe to say that life is a school and there are going to be tests.

~ Kayko Tamaki

. . as A martial arts teacher, we should never forget the first time we stepped onto the Dojo ground, remembering this, we will be better equipped to teach the next generation of Karate practitioners

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Education stimulates self-study.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Bruner discusses the need for teachers to understand that children should want to study for study's own sake, for learnings's sake, not for the sake of good grades or examination success. The curriculum should, in other words, be interesting. (Yes, it sounds too obvious even to say, but sometimes the emphasis on content has trumped all other considerations, including that of making learning interesting.)

~ Gary Thomas

You are never too old to learn something new, or too young to learn too much.

~ Suzy Kassem

We must keep on learning for self-development.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you desire it, you must punish yourself for the sake of learning, seek every advantage in keeping up with the other clerks and in excelling them. You must study with the fervor of the blessed or the cursed.

~ Noah Gordon

No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness.

~ A.s. Neill

Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When it comes to learning success, action is your school, and failure your teacher.

~ Majid Kazmi

It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that is why meaningful student involvement is vital to school improvement.

~ Adam Fletcher