Change Schools Quotes

#1. The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.

J. Michael Straczynski

#2. I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

Sara Bareilles

#3. Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls all had to change schools.

Susan Ford

#4. Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.

Peter Drucker

#5. Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.

Andy Hargreaves

#6. Late 2011, the U.S. Department of Education made a historic change to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act to allow schools to release student records to third-party organizations without parental consent.

Glenn Beck

#7. By including children with different learning abilities in mainstream and specialized schools, we can change attitudes and promote respect. By creating suitable jobs for adults with autism, we integrate them into society.

Ban Ki-moon

#8. There is always frustration from people who work in schools that things keep changing but it is an unfortunate truth with the world of work changing as rapidly as it is, we do have to change.

Jim Knight

#9. 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.

Morgan Brittany

#10. evidence for life after death? Wouldn't they

Bill Guggenheim

#11. The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Richard Steele

#12. Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Henry Ward Beecher

#13. The work of meaningful student involvement is not easy or instantly rewarding. It demands that the system of schooling change, and that the attitudes of students, educators, parents and community members change.

Adam Fletcher

#14. the goal of schools shouldn't be to manufacture "productive citizens" to fill some corporate cubicle; it should be to inspire each child to find a "calling" that will change the world.

Clark Aldrich

#15. Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

John Cage

#16. Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.

Estelle Morris

#17. Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.

Melinda Gates

#18. Don't compare yourself to anyone. Be happy to be the wonder unique, very special person that you are.

Susan Polis Schutz

#19. Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality.

Alan Coren

#20. The third aspect of change is a systematic development of respectful and inspiring working conditions for teachers and principals in Finnish schools.

Pasi Sahlberg

#21. I wake up at the same time every day to get to the gym.

Joe Manganiello

#22. That kiss, I cannot describe. It was like a poem, a prayer, a homecoming unlooked-for. It was like dungeon walls crumbling to reveal a glimpse of sky. It

Jacqueline Carey

#23. When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

W. Somerset Maugham

#24. The constant movement of a military life can be tough on children. My father was an officer in the army, and I was forced to change elementary schools six times.

Kim Young-ha

#25. What teachers do actually matters. Their ideas count. They are agents for change in our schools.

Denny Taylor

#26. Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.

Newt Gingrich

#27. Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives.

Alice Waters

#28. Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

John Dewey

#29. There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way.

Leonard Baskin

#30. All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

William C. Bryant

#31. How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing this year that they did 50 years ago when it didn't work then, and no one feels any pressure to change?

Geoffrey Canada

#32. In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

Chuck Norris

#33. We have to reach out to churches and schools and help people understand science, and we have to build rapport between scientists and people of faith. Then once we get that understanding and rapport built, then everyone will be on board with climate change.

Katharine Hayhoe

#34. Great teachers are wonderful. They change lives. We need them. The problem is that most schools don't like great teachers. They're organized to stamp them out, bore them, bureaucratize them, and make them average. Why

Seth Godin

#35. I hate jealousy. At least it's its own punishment; it makes me feel like hell.

Patricia Gaffney

#36. Borrowed from my former superintendent of schools: 'Change is inevitable, growth is optional.

Robert L. Hunton

#37. Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on
in quest of the secret which is hidden over there
beyond the horizon?

Eugene O'Neill

#38. If you look back at British history, women being allowed to play sport in schools meant they had to change their clothing. They couldn't be running around in their long skirts and corsets, because you can't.

Clare Balding

#39. But babies become children, and they go to elementary schools that indoctrinate them on how to overthrow governments, and they get interested in boys and girls, or they don't, and anyway they change.

Joseph Fink

#40. When people ask how old I am, I just tell them twenty-one, and if they assume I mean years instead of decades or centuries, then that can't be my fault, can it?

Kevin Hearne

#41. At any given time the universe is giving you the best result possible.

Deepak Chopra