School quotes

“I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.” Richard Dawkins

“I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.” Richard Dawkins

“Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.” Ellen DeGeneres

“I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.” Ellen DeGeneres

“Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.” Bill Cosby

“When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.” Bill Cosby

“This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.” John Rockefeller

“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.” Carl Sagan

“An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.” Charles Stanley

“Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.” Michael Jackson

“I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.” Donald Trump

“You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.” Virginia Woolf

“I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.” Walt Whitman

“My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.” Adele

“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.” Edmund Burke

“I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.” Yogi Berra

“Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.” Ambrose Bierce

“Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.” Stephen Covey

“But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!” Stephen Covey

“I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.” Dustin Hoffman