- Nov 07, 2020
School Quotes
On learning, growing up and finding your own pace.
These quotes cover school in different forms: a childhood spent in Sunday school, being a late bloomer among faster-moving classmates, and skipping formal film training entirely to learn a craft directly. For lighter school-themed content, see our Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Educational Opportunities
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what I thought my business should be.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading can be just feeding, but smart reading takes us further. The classroom is one way to go deeper, but we can't stay in school forever.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom got pregnant when she was 15. She dropped out of high school. She died in her forties, but before she died, she went back and finished high school.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never went to camp as a kid. I couldn't get into an Ivy League school. I wouldn't join a biker club.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
My worst subject in school was school, but it turns out I'm great at starting them.
- Gathered
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I rushed home before the kids left for school and gathered them around our dining room table and told them what had happened. Like everyone else, we struggled for words to describe to our kids why such a thing would occur.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020