Quotes about Schooling and School
Never say anything that doesn’t improve on silence.
Richard Yates, A Good School
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
William Ellery Channing
It’s nothing. A school project. My go-to answer for anything. Staying out late? School project. Need extra money? School project.
Jay Asher
My school colors were clear. We used to say, ‘I’m not naked, I’m in the band.
Steven Wright
It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.
Ringo Starr
Quotes about schooling and school
I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.
Henry Miller
The schools we go to are reflections of the society that created them.
Assata Shakur
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
John Lennon
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.
J.K. Rowling
I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they’re here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen.
Stephen Chbosky
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John Keats
Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: ‘You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do.
Doris Lessing
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.
Katharine Hepburn
French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.
Stephanie Perkins
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school.
Sharon Olds
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Pauline Kael
You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s!!!
Bill Watterson
I mean, really. Who sends their kid to boarding school? It’s so Hogwarts.
Stephanie Perkins
I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.
Ray Bradbury
I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse.
J.D. Salinger
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
Life, I’ve learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.
Nicholas Sparks
You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me.
J.K. Rowling
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
Stanley Kubrick
There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.
Chris Colfer
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
It’s easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.
Laurie Halse Anderson
It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.
John Waters
I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.
Bill Watterson
It was like when you’re a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it’s just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school.
Sarah Dessen
I’ll be famous one day, but for now I’m stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons.” – Greg Heffley,
Jeff Kinney
Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.
Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
I go to a school for spies.
Ally Carter
Nudge: “I look like prep school Barbie. (looks at Max) Actually, you look like prep school Barbie. I’m just Barbie’s friend.
James Patterson, School’s Out—Forever
There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
Ray Bradbury
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
Bill Watterson
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.
Frank Zappa
I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
John Green
High school isn’t a very important place. When you’re going you think it’s a big deal, but when it’s over nobody really thinks it was great unless they’re beered up.
Stephen King
I didn’t have any friends at school, didn’t want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.
Charles Bukowski
Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to be hunted down and forced to watch hours of educational televison without the aid of caffeine.
Heather Brewer
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
Mahatma Gandhi
Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don’t care about anymore.
Lady Gaga
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody thought I was a chick.
Gerard Way
…The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.
Henry David Thoreau
The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.
Orhan Pamuk
Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters – the saints and the sinners, real or imagined – reading shows you how to be a better human being.
Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I’m not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
Mark Haddon
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter
What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.
Harold Howe
I’ve loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.
L.M. Montgomery
What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?
Lynette Mather
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt
Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks.
Ally Carter
Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.
Peter S. Jennison
Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they’ll let you become an adult. I hope it’s worth it.
Laurie Halse Anderson
When asked “What do we need to learn this for?” any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness.
David Sedaris
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library.
Isaac Asimov
You know . . . a lot of kids at school hate their parents. Some of them got hit. And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives. Some of them were trophies for their parents to show the neighbors like ribbons or gold stars. And some of them just wanted to drink in peace.
Stephen Chbosky
Rules and school are tools for fools! I don’t give two mules for rules.
Trenton Lee Stewart
This is the Wilderness School. ‘Where the Kids are animals
Rick Riordan
When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.
John Taylor Gatto
NO PDA,school rules. And besides she’s my partner dickhead.” said Alex.
Simone Elkeles
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
Martin Luther
The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Tom Bodett
I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
Robert Frost
Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.
George Carlin
High School. Society’s bright idea to put all their aggressive, naive youth into one environment to torment and emotionally scar each other for life.
Chris Colfer
When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.
Steven Wright
High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship – nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.
John Green
In high school, I used to think it was like sooooo cool if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character and honesty and trust.
Taylor Swift
High School is like a spork: it’s a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it’s just plain useless.
John Mayer
I wasn’t aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.
Rick Riordan
If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!
J.K. Rowling
Most people felt lost after high school. Sometimes I felt like I’d never really been found in the first place.
Lish McBride
Creativity is as important as literacy
Ken Robinson
O, when she’s angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.
William Shakespeare
Everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.
David Levithan
A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.
Ruth Beechick
Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.
Max Brooks
You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.
John Kennedy Toole
Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life – at least so far – I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.
Meg Cabot, Airhead
Never say anything that doesn’t improve on silence.
Richard Yates, A Good School
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
Dyslexic, Agatha Christie
Everything you’ve learned in school as “obvious” becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.
R. Buckminster Fuller
I find myself daydreaming about him when I wake up in the morning, in school when something reminds me of him, and when I fall asleep at night
Simone Elkeles
When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either “You’re joking, right?” or “They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?
Scott Douglas
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
Woody Allen
In high school I barely made the rodeo team. But I wasn’t good enough to start, so I just rode the bench.
Jarod Kintz
She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.
Terry Pratchett
They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.
Margaret Atwood
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
Ivan Illich
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
A society’s competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.
Albert Einstein, Dyslexic Genius, Dyslexic Creative
I’ll show you Obama’s birth certificate when you show me Sarah Palin’s high school diploma.
Bill Maher
School made us ‘literate’ but did not teach us to read for pleasure.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.
E.A. Bucchianeri
Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon ‘in service,’ which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.
Neal Shusterman, Bruiser
It is clearly absurd to limit the term ‘education’ to a person’s formal schooling.
Murray N. Rothbard
I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
J.M. Barrie
To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.
Leo Tolstoy
I prefer the school of life.
Cassandra Clare
We learn not in the school, but in life.
Seneca
Don’t marry a man to reform him – that’s what reform schools are for.
Mae West
You don’t have to go to some special private school to be an artist. Just look at the intricate beauty of cobwebs. Spiders make them with their butts.
Jenny Lawson
You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
Henry Ford
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don’t know what happened on either occasion.
Mark Twain
It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.
Laurie Halse Anderson
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
Michel Foucault
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
Thomas More
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
Erma Bombeck
Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.
Suzanne Collins
I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown.
Laurie Halse Anderson
I want to tell them all; the world is bigger than high school.
Abigail Haas
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.
Sloane Crosley
We, who are so schooled in the art of listening to the voices of others, can often hear our own voice only when we are alone. . . For many women, the first choice, then, is to give ourselves the necessary time and space in which to renew our acquaintance with our lost voice, to learn to recognize it, and to rejoice as we hear it express our truth.
Florence Falk
You mean he came to your school? The scandalous rodent-loaf!
Laini Taylor
Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads.
Sherman Alexie
Wow. I thought I was the only person at this school faking every moment.
Katie McGarry
I’ve always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.
Jenny Han
I don’t understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.
Jerome K. Jerome
School prepares you for the real world… which also bites.
Jim Benton
You will not remember much from school.
School is designed to teach you how to respond and listen to authority figures in the event of an emergency.
anonymous
A Student is the most important person ever in this school…in person, on the telephone, or by mail.
A Student is not dependent on us…we are dependent on the Student.
A Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it. We are not doing a favor by serving the Student…the Student is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so.
A Student is a person who brings us his or her desire to learn. It is our job to handle each Student in a manner which is beneficial to the Student and ourselves.
William W. Purkey, Becoming an Invitational Leader
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other.
Mark Twain
In high school I got voted most likely to get voted for something.
Jarod Kintz
Raven! What are you doing up so late? You have school tomorrow!”…”But I thought it was just the one time?
Ellen Schreiber
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
Edward Gibbon
School used to be an escape. Now it’s just another place with too much pressure, too much confrontation, & so not enough joy.
Ellen Hopkins
Everyone at school seems to go by a nickname. Kat, Frosty, Bronx, Boo Bear, Jelly Bean, Freckles.
Gena Showalter
it’s back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.
Stephen Colbert
What do they teach them at these schools?
C.S. Lewis
In every school I’ve gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.
J.D. Salinger
[Homeschooling]…recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.
Raymond S. Moore
The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.
Michael Lewis
The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.
Ray Bradbury
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.
Ivan Illich
I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there’s something wrong with you.
Stephen King
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
William Shakespeare
Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE.
Mandy Hale
The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present.
Flannery O’Connor
Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.
Kurt Vonnegut
All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.
George Whitman
My mom did what school didn’t. She taught me how to think.
Trevor Noah
When students cheat on exams it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce
I don’t know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.
S.E. Hinton
Go to College,
Stay in school,
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread,
they can sure make something out of you.
Muhammad Ali
The higher my GPA gets the more I realize high school is useless
Megan McCafferty
Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
Aberjhani
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect, but if nobody’s pefect why practice?
Green Day
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
Stanley Kubrick
You may flunk your exams in school and still make it in life, but if you flunk life’s exams, you’re sunk!
Chris Oyakhilome
Time is the school in which we learn
Joan Didion
If there’s a Hell on Earth, it’s high school.
Lisa Desrochers
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.
Herbert Hoover
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high
Heinrich Heine
Your words and actions made me hate coming to school. They made me uncomfortable in my own home.
Penelope Douglas
One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.
Richard Bach
There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, ‘schools’ and ‘movements’ are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius.
Vladimir Nabokov
I dropped out of school and congratulated myself for my diligence. Few realize how hard one has to work to resist the pressures of conventional success.
Bauvard
A lot of kids think high school represents the best years of their lives, but others recognize that it’s mostly irrelevant bullshit, and that life doesn’t even begin until afterward.
Paula Stokes
What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.
Terry Tempest Williams
It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.
Liane Moriarty
I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.
John Scalzi
My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.
Margaret Mead
Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
James Baldwin
Don’t let your life outside of school dictate your future.
Simone Elkeles
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz
Public schools were not only created in the interests of industrialism
Ken Robinson
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.
H.L. Mencken
School would be way more tolerable if everyone wasn’t so afraid to be who they really are. And if everyone else would let them.
Susane Colasanti
Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?
Diane Ravitch
Prison is like high school with knives.
Raegan Butcher
All the things I’ve read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest book in the world.
Michael Jackson
The human heart is my school.
Anne Rice
The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln
To a very great degree, school is a place where children learn to be stupid.
John Holt
Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
Salman Rushdie
Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.
Chuck Palahniuk, Rant
All the geography, trigonometry, and arithmetic in the world are useless unless you learn to think for yourself. No school teaches you that. It’s not on the curriculum.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J.D. Salinger
I never learned hate at home or shame. I had to go to school for that.
Dick Gregory
I miss school.
What’s wrong with me?
Wendelin Van Draanen
I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
Neil Gaiman