School Closing Quotes

#1. The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to a good university ... The great failure in education, much of the time, is a lack of excitement and stimulus.

Bill Bryson

#2. But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [ ... ] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Stephen King

#3. Sometimes America gets tempted by the glitz and glamour.

Martin Henderson

#4. I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures. Because these need to get out!

Pope Francis

#5. I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through

L.M. Montgomery

#6. Living in the fifties America was in many ways like living in a public space that's suddenly emptied out, a theater after closing, or a classroom after school. The emptiness could feel liberating, but it could also make you feel blank and vaguely nostalgic.

James Harvey

#7. I am a desperate romantic. I love the idea of random collisions of the heart.

Jessica Thompson

#8. If you want to know the value of a year, ask the student who was in the final year of his university education, when the lecturers went on strike and the school ended up closing for a year.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

Diane Ravitch

#10. I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.

Angel Olsen

#11. Since war often enters homes through the "kitchen door," we need to understand women's attempts to keep life going in the face of shortage of food, closing of schools and reduced freedoms.

Zainab Salbi

#12. Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.

Bruce Catton

#13. [My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.

Gloria Estefan

#14. Speaking of hope, did you see that shot Alec got off with his bow? That's my boyfriend.

Cassandra Clare

#15. Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any ... thing.

William S. Burroughs

#16. The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.

James Patterson