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Schooling Quotes (page 69)

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. Ray Bradbury
In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories. Bill Watterson
They know that as long as they keep us undereducated, or with an inferior education, it’s impossible for us to compete with them for job openings. And as long as we can’t compete with them and get a decent job, we’re trapped. We are low-wage earners. We have to live in a run-down neighborhood, which means our children go to inferior schools. They get inferior education. And when they grow up, they fall right into the same cycle again. This is the American way. This is the American... Malcolm X
In his school, Bertrand Russell thought it was better if they had the sex, so they could give their undivided attention to mathematics, which was the main thing. Paul Goodman
Grown-ups shouldn’t finish books they’re not enjoying. When you’re no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don’t have to finish everything on your plate. One reward of leaving school is that you don’t have to finish books you don’t like. John Irving
Well, hello, Peter? said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him.?Long time, no see. J. K. Rowling
Jodi Picoult quote: "What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is..."
What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is. Jodi Picoult
You didn’t get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. That’s the thing. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else. Mitch Albom
Lenina suddenly remembered an occasion when, as a little girl at school, she had woken up in the middle of the night and become aware, for the first time, of the whispering that had haunted all her sleeps. Aldous Huxley
L. M. Montgomery quote: "I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over..."
I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school. L. M. Montgomery
Throwing things horrified me. I suffered extreme, paralyzing anxiety when it came to anything remotely athletic. I wouldn't even run to catch the school bus because I knew I'd trip and then get teased for a year. Augusten Burroughs
Henry Miller quote: "I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a..."
I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over. Henry Miller
Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done. Thomas Friedman
The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization. W. E. B. Du Bois
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "Do you know how to pick a lock?"Not in the least, I'm..."
Do you know how to pick a lock?"Not in the least, I'm afraid."I often wonder what we go to school for," said Wimsey. Dorothy L. Sayers

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