Schooling Quotes

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

School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.

~ John Taylor Gatto

If we spark a student's passion, we unleash a powerful force upon the world.

~ Tim Fargo

What I learned on my own I still remember

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Everything is like a wall. Said a scholar to the troll. Bang your head to go on through. Then you'll see, there is no queue.

~ Will Advise

Schools themselves aren't creating the opportunity gap: the gap is already large by the time children enter kindergarten and does not grow as children progress through school. The gaps in cognitive achievement by level of maternal education that we observe at age 18-powerful predictors of who goes to college and who does not - are mostly present at age 6when children enter school. Schooling plays only a minor role in alleviating or creating test score gaps.

~ Robert D. Putnam

A person who says “every person has a right to a decent education” may not actually mean “people should be robbed to support bad schools” or “all children should be forced into a prison-like building for 12 years.

~ Jeffrey Tucker

Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you feed a child, you strengthen him for a day; if you educate him, you strengthen him for a lifetime.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state, as religion. Let it once enter into our civil affairs, our government soon would be destroyed. Let it once enter our common schools, they would be destroyed. Those who made our Constitution saw this, and used the most apt and comprehensive language in it to prevent such a catast

~ Supreme Court Of Wisconsin

For Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being put in the stocks and forced to endure the peltings and outrages of a mob of deranged half-wits, an experience from which he supposed he should have emerged a better person, but that’s not really what happened—and if there were any lessons to be gleaned from the ordeal of those years he never quite figured out what they were. He walked into school every day like the fat lonely nerdy kid he was, and all he could think about was the day of his manumission, when he would at last be set free from its unending horror. Hey, Oscar, are there faggots on Mars?—Hey, Kazoo, catch this. The first time he heard the term moronic inferno he know exactly where it was located and who were its inhabitants.

~ Junot Díaz

One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type of intelligence, and it’s incredibly restrictive - very, very restrictive. There’s so many types of intelligence, and people who would be at their best outside of that structure get lost.

~ Bruce Springsteen

The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life....

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Yet that is considered an excellent school, and I dare say it would be if the benighted lady did not think it necessary to cram her pupils like Thanksgiving turkeys, instead of feeding them in a natural and wholesome way. It is the fault with most American schools, and the poor little heads will go on aching till we learn better.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Half of teachers leave the profession within their first four years, and kids with behaviour challenges and their parents are cited as one of the major reasons.

~ Ross W. Greene

Schooling gives you knowledge, but education makes you wise.

~ Debasish Mridha

In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away.

~ Derrick Jensen

In the race of life I would rather to be around the best and sink than to be around mediocrity and swim.

~ Xela Ffonrims

Well, Jack, we have taken the Macedonian, and your share of the prize, if we get her in safely, may be two hundred dollars; what will you do with it?” Stephen Decatur, commanding the frigate United States, North Atlantic, near the Azores Islands, 1812.“One hundred will go to my mother, sir, and the other I shall spend on schooling.” Jack Creamer, aged ten.

~ Irvin Anthony

I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.

~ Malcolm X

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

~ Mark Twain

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

~ Mark Twain