Quotes and Sayings about School

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago... but I admire the sadism.

The merry laughter of little innocent children wending their way to school. Thirsty little minds rushing to the fountain of knowledge.

I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

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.

x² y 8 [(x 2y ² = a-z] 2x ³ (- 2z = 2. 4) 10y - 5Z ³= k= 9. x... Yeah, I still cant remember one time this helped me in life.

There are more things in Heaven and Earth
Than are dream't of in your Philosophy

Education is what remains after one has forgotten, what one has learned in school.

Giving a child an education is by far one of the most important investments we can make.

It's wrong to think that an educational system could work without conveying values!

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Education is that human process of feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had.

Education is the ability to distinguish between useful and useless knowledge.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think.

The difference between the novice and the master is that the master has failed more times than the novice has tried.

We are what they grow beyond. That is the true burden of all masters.

Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

As I work hard every day to inspire my students, it is ultimately they who inspire me.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Never memorize what you can look up in books.

There's a benefit about losing: you get to learn from your mistakes.

Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Elliot: "I'm not hiding, I was just looking for my... you know, the... I was looking for my dignity."
J.D.: "Did you find it?"
Elliot: "No. I must've left it at college."

I've spent the past three-and-a-half years staring at greaseboards full of equations; before that, I spent four years working on my thesis; before that, I was in college, and before that... I was in the fifth grade.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

Cady: "Yeah, I like math."
Damian: "Eww. Why?"
Cady: "Because it's the same in every country."

The wheel allowed people to travel around, trading things. But first, they needed to count how many things they owned. And that led to the tragic invention of maths.

Penny: "Four years I lived with him! Four years, I mean that's like as long as high school!"
Sheldon: "It took you four years to get through high school?!"

We all have things we keep hidden. Sometimes, keeping secrets is how you survive. Because in High School, one rumor, one picture, one incident, can define you forever.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.

Amanda: "I'll buy a cup if you buy a box of my delicious Girl Scout cookies."
Wednesday: "Are they made from real Girl Scouts?"

Weems: "No doubt you'll find something that tickles your fancy."
Wednesday: "The last person who tickled me lost a finger."

A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Bullying happens because weak people need to prop up their ego by beating up or humiliating others.

It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.