Schools Quotes

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

We have always been a great national party, with views on all the main issues. We recognise that what matters to people most are those things that affect their daily lives: schools, hospitals, transport and law and order and we have plenty to say about them.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.

We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.

My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

Well, I think, you know, the university and the high schools are also important, but depends how I'm going to do in tennis - well, I hope. I mean, it depends, so I don't know yet.

Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.

I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.

I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.

Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.

As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.

So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled.

Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live.