School Quotes

At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.

You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

If you're going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.

I think our vision heretofore has been and should continue to be to have Cardozo be the kind of law school that we can be proud of. I would like to see it gain recognition as one of the three best law schools in New York City.

I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys.

I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in the stock room of Ralph Lauren. I graduated to salesperson at Ralph Lauren, which was a big deal to me. I've been a P.A. I've been a stand-in. I've been an assistant's assistant.

I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.

I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.

About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.

What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.

A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.

The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so the kids at school tormented me. Truly, it was horrifying the names they called me, and the teachers never really did a thing to stop it.

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out.

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.