Top 100 In Schools Quotes
#1. You know what is interesting, Condit is very conservative. He voted to post the ten commandments in schools. Yet, he himself broke the 11th commandment, 'Thou shall not put thy rod in thy staff.'
Jay Leno
#2. But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools.
Johannes Rau
#3. Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.
Gagan Narang
#4. Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.
Stephen Covey
#5. We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.
Thomas R. Cech
#6. Though Urdu is the mother tongue of only 5 percent of Pakistanis, it is the official language of the state and is taught in schools nationwide.
Dilip Hiro
#7. Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.
Lady Gregory
#8. Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as a consequence. The value of liminal space and transitional imagination remain personally and culturally undeveloped.
Michael Leunig
#9. I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just don't take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. 'Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read 'Little House on the Prairie' when he was in third grade.
Jon Scieszka
#10. It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.
Rita Dove
#11. Jamie Oliver, quite rightly, was talking about trying to improve the diet of children in schools and improving school meals, but the net effect was the number of children eating school meals in many of these places didn't go up, it went down.
Andrew Lansley
#12. A drop in younger children visiting libraries is of great concern. As children's laureate, I am passionate about the role of libraries, both in schools and in the wider community. They are unique places where children can begin their journey as readers, as well as being creative hubs.
Chris Riddell
#13. Since all taxpayers are being forced to fund the religion of evolution in schools and it is evolution that must be proven to be the only way our universe came into being like the textbooks say, what happens if one jury member will not vote with the rest?
Kent Hovind
#14. So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.
Phil Lesh
#15. Music is about communication, creativity, and cooperation, and by studying music in schools, students have the opportunity to build on these skills, enrich their lives, and experience the world from a new perspective.
William J. Clinton
#16. The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17. We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.
David McCullough
#18. I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
Jack Bowman
#19. Everywhere around me, already I see cliques, the kinds of cliques you see in schools everywhere: jocks, troublemakers, mathletes, you name it. Me, I am in a clique unto myself, the sole member of the group called "crazy.
Lauren Baratz-Logsted
#20. The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!
Robert Green Ingersoll
#22. Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.
Jonathan Kozol
#23. Let the professionals like doctors & engineers teach in schools once a week. Let's make teaching a national movement necessary for Nation building.
Narendra Modi
#24. We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. It is a peculiarity of the English language that while most fish swim in schools, herring swim in shoals, a word of the same meaning derived from the same Anglo-Saxon root.
Mark Kurlansky
#26. Coming from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's why I went off the rails a bit really, 'cause there was no training for it. They didn't do fame in schools.
Craig Charles
#27. An Indian child is brought up in England, and he will speak both English and Hindi very well. English in school and Hindi at home. But here it's English both in schools and at home. Why can't you speak Swahili with your child at home? If this continues we will turn into an English speaking country.
Enock Maregesi
#28. Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.
Adam Fletcher
#29. Your parents are just trying to do what's best for you," said Carla. "A lot of people think counselors don't belong in schools." She shrugged. "I guess they're afraid I might full your head with all kinds of crazy ideas.
Louis Sachar
#30. I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools alongside the theories of evolution.
Rick Perry
#31. That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools.
Sara Sheridan
#32. Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
Ludwig Von Mises
#33. Profound question is how do you measure the non-skills component of what goes on in schools: values, curiosity, critical thinking, and so on. That's very tough. Maybe everything worthwhile can't be measured.
Nicholas Lemann
#34. We live in a culture in which condoms can be handed out in schools and Bibles can't. And I think that tells you everything you need to know about our society.
Janet E. Smith
#35. I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.
J. Michael Straczynski
#36. Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.
Martin Luther
#37. I cannot believe that my generation may very well have been the last one to have sex education in schools that was truly the complete and total package. I mean what are we doing? Are we in the future, but acting like it's The Dark Ages?
Sheryl Lee Ralph
#38. My particular interest area is working in issues of emotional literacy. What I see of the way that we educate boys and more than that, the way we socialize boys within their families and then in schools to me is tantamount to just removing any element of emotional intelligence from them.
John Amaechi
#39. Men must teach each other that real men do not violate or oppress women - and that a woman's place is not just in the home or the field, but in schools and offices and boardrooms.
Ban Ki-moon
#40. The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.
Estelle Morris
#41. I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.
Garry Kasparov
#42. Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught
In schools, some graduate of the field or street,
Who shall become a master of art,
An admiral sailing the high seas of thought
Fearless and first, and steering with his fleet
For lands not yet laid down in any chart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#43. Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box.
James Dyson
#44. It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.
Sebastian Coe
#45. He stepped outside and looked up at the stars swimming in schools through the wind-driven clouds.
John Steinbeck
#46. Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived ... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.
Andrew Motion
#47. I don't think losing 3 million jobs, having deficits as far as the eye can go, having 2 million people lose their health insurance, turning your back on kids in schools and not funding No Child Left Behind represents a vision.
John F. Kerry
#48. You see it in schools all over ... the concept that 'I'll be somewhat less than my best in order to make those around me feel more comfortable' is alive and well ... I'm very keen that they understand that if they make themselves a little less than they can be, it is a one-way street to mediocrity.
Fiona Wood
#49. I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.
Ben Stein
#50. Learning to read faces should be compulsory in schools so you can decipher what people are really thinking.
Ruby Wax
#51. The disconnect between what's going on in schools and what's allowed to be shown in movies has gotten really bad because girls in junior high are having oral sex and getting bracelets for it, and in movies everybody's got to be 30 years old to have sex. It's very bizarre.
Amy Heckerling
#52. 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
#53. Who should we trust to say what teaching is, and how does this play out in schools? How can we even begin to transform education policy or practice unless we all understand what teaching really means?
Vanessa Rodriguez
#54. The things they don't tell you in schools these days, geez. Have a look at your owners. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice; you have owners. They own you. They own everything.
George Carlin
#55. Internal democracy in schools is as important in order to ensure the true democratization of education.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#56. I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.
Anatoly Karpov
#57. Nothing about contraception should be taught in schools. There is no question that it will encourage sexual activity.
Phyllis Schlafly
#58. We have been supporting GIS in schools for more than 25 years.
Jack Dangermond
#59. I run a program called Amer-I-Can. We've taught in prisons, schools, juvenile facilities and we teach in the community. We have the greatest record from the standpoint of dealing with grade point averages, disciplinary action and attendance in schools.
Jim Brown
#60. I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men [sic] who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.
Golda Meir
#61. I have requested the corporates to evolve plans under corporate social responsibility to build clean toilets specially for girl students in schools. India should learn from foreign countries, where people are disciplined and do not litter in public places.
Narendra Modi
#62. We must consider teaching the Egyptian revolution in schools.
David Cameron
#63. The scientific dictator of tomorrow will set up his whispering machines and subliminal projectors in schools and hospitals (children and the sick are highly suggestible), and in all public places where audiences can be given a preliminary softening up by suggestibility-increasing oratory or rituals.
Aldous Huxley
#64. You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus in schools, but I believe the most important formula is courage plus dreams equals success.
Marlee Matlin
#65. VIRTUALITY ACTUALITY
Classrooms in schools will give way to classes in rooms at home
Kamil Ali
Kamil Ali
#66. Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.
Ingrid Newkirk
#67. Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.
Nicholas Sparks
#68. Instead of school busing and prayer in schools, which are both controversial, why not a joint solution? Prayer in buses. Just drive these kids around all day and let them pray their fuckn' empty little heads off.
George Carlin
#69. As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion.
Rudy Giuliani
#70. The changes that are needed in schools will take root more readily if local and national policies actually support them.
Ken Robinson
#71. In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation.
Carter G. Woodson
#72. Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.
Howard Gardner
#73. We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
William Glasser
#74. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#75. I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.
Sachin Tendulkar
#76. Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.
Malorie Blackman
#77. Schools are compulsory for about ten years of a person's life. They are, perhaps, the only compulsory institutions for all citizens, although those with full membership in schools are not yet treated as full citizens of our society ...
Marie Brennan
#78. Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#79. In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected ... piecemeal, superficially adorned projects ... We are over our heads.
Michael Fullan
#80. 'I wish for a better life. I wish for food for my children. I wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop.' This is the dream of the African girl.
Leymah Gbowee
#81. The premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the obverse of the lack of attention given to life situations in which the meaning of facts, ideas, principles, and problems is vitally brought home.
John Dewey
#82. The time to talk about it [genetic engineering to improve a baby's genes] in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now. If you wait, five years from now the gene doctor will be hanging out the MAKE A SMARTER BABY sign down the street.
Arthur Caplan
#83. Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
James S. Coleman
#84. I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
Sally Field
#85. I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.
Bjork
#86. I wish they would teach it in schools: Give people the belief that they are going to do well. A lot of people are really talented and scared to follow their talent because you don't know where it's going.
Bill Burr
#87. If peace is what every government says it seeks, and peace is the yearning of every heart, why aren't we studying it and teaching it in schools?
Colman McCarthy
#88. Character Education helps to create an environment for caring and learning in schools.
Thomas Lickona
#89. The way history is currently taught in schools, jumping from Hitler to the Henrys, is like a nightmare vision of Star Wars, where you have episode four before you have episode one. The sense of going on a journey of chronology and continuity, is incredibly important to the imagination.
Simon Schama
#90. Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used.
Chris Crutcher
#91. We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#92. We need to build on what we know works - local oversight of schools to keep a check on performance, timely interventions in schools to support those at risk of failing, and partnerships between schools to help each one to improve.
David Blunkett
#93. I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.
Paul McCartney
#94. It's really important that people know about it and the issue in schools because it happens every day to people and it really hurts when people get bullied.
Kaitlyn Dever
#95. In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.
Ian McKellen
#96. The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life ... The Bible ... should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.
Benjamin Rush
#97. My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways,
Shane Koyczan
#98. I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.
Chaka Khan
#99. The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.
Robert Kiyosaki
#100. The principal goal of education in schools is to teach students basic knowledge and kindle mindsets that know how to think better and to understand the world in which they live.
Debasish Mridha
