Schools Quotes

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.

Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.

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.

Schools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs and abilities of the children who enter them.

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

We are fortunate to live an area that is blessed with outstanding schools and educators. We are proud of the quality of education that they provide to local students.

Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.