School quotes and words of wisdom

""Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life."
Joyce Carol Oates


"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt


"ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught./ ACADEMY, n. [from ACADEME] A modern school where football is taught."
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce


"Academy: A modern school where football is taught."
Ambrose Bierce


"Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life."
John Rogers


"High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of."
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


"Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live."
Peter Cochrane


"It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling."
Robert Frost


"Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go."
Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale


"More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build alot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities."
Jonathan Kozol


"Referee"s report: This paper contains much that is new and much that is true. Unfortunately, that which is true is not new and that which is new is not true."
Unknown


"Schools out for summer."
Proverb


"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
Kurt Vonnegut


"When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course."
Peter F. Drucker


Interesting Quotes

We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.Haida Indian saying

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.Carl Jung - Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)