Top 33 Quotes About Schools And Communities
#1. One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.
Thomas Menino
#2. Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals who prey on our communities, who rob our businesses and undermine our economy, who ply their destructive trade in drugs in our schools, and who do violence against our women and children.
Nelson Mandela
#3. Going jogging makes me feel powerful and free - like Rocky!
Jennifer Hudson
#4. The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds-funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who hold particular religious views, nor indeed from those who subscribe to any creed at all.
William J. Brennan
#5. Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.
Kelly Miller
#6. I play a nice crazy lady whose morals are right but who is really foundering.
Mary Crosby
#7. The Time to Succeed Coalition brings together an unprecedented group of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.
Chris Gabrieli
#8. Cove is essentially a collaboration, coordination and communication tool for the administration of organizations and communities, from the Stanford Graduate School of Business Entrepreneurship Club to church groups and schools.
Ruchi Sanghvi
#9. I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
Abigail Breslin
#10. Long before the internet, critical media literacy has never been considered essential in schools or communities. Instead,
Danah Boyd
#11. We don't have a crime problem, a gun problem or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem. And since we've ordered god out of our schools, and communities, the military and public conversations, you know we really shouldn't act so surprised ... when all hell breaks loose,
Mike Huckabee
#12. Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.
Ban Ki-moon
#13. Some Japs killed themselves. Who gives a shit? No tickee, no washee. Where's Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto? It's Sunday morning - this sure beats church.
James Ellroy
#14. One is taller. The other is shorter.
Yao Ming
#15. She realises how little she knows about this man. Her knowledge little more than a thin sheen of brightness, like reflected sunlight on an opaque pond.
Glenn Haybittle
#16. Seven major settings are particularly relevant to contemporary health education: schools, communities, worksites, health care settings, homes, the consumer marketplace, and the communications environment.
Karen Glanz
#17. The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.
Theodore Zeldin
#18. The challenge for each one of you is to take up these ideals of tolerance and respect for others and put them to practical use in your schools, your communities and throughout your lives.
Nelson Mandela
#19. Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.
Jens Stoltenberg
#20. The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable.
Frank Rich
#21. Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
Terry Pratchett
#22. It is my hope that our garden's story-and the stories of gardens across America-will inspire families, schools, and communities to try their own hand at gardening and enjoy all the gifts of health, discovery, and connection a garden can bring.
Michelle Obama
#23. We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities.
Claire McCaskill
#24. Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.
Bob Taft
#25. Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
Jane Elliot
#26. As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.
Robert Reich
#27. What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.
Robert Reich
#28. She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I amwithout adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world.
Sharon Maas
#29. The Libertarian Party is a very mainstream party. It's a mainstream philosophy. It's of returning power from Washington to parents, to schools, to businesses in their communities.
Bob Barr
#30. To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
Adam Davidson
#31. To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else
these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
Mark Twain
#32. If schools continue to follow an outdated educational model focusing on preparation for an industrialized workforce, they run the risk of becoming irrelevant to our students and communities.
Eric C. Sheninger
#33. If we want to, say, develop schools in disadvantaged communities that can successfully counteract the poisonous atmosphere of their surrounding neighborhoods, this tells us that we're probably better off building lots of little schools than one or two big ones.
Malcolm Gladwell
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