School Quotes

Friendship is not something

you learn in school.

But if you haven't learned

the meaning of friendship,

you really haven't

learned anything.

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.

I never went to school more than six months in my life,

but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections,

I remember how,

when a mere child,

I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me

in a way I could not understand.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car;

but if he has a university education,

he may steal the whole railroad.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

Let a hundred flowers bloom;

let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by

every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap

let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges;

let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs;

let it be preached from the pulpit,

proclaimed in legislative halls,

and enforced in courts of justice.

In the first place,

God made idiots.

That was for practice.

Then he made school boards.

The only thing I learned in school

that I use today is how to write a check.

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913.

I was allowed to read.

My mother, who was a teacher,

taught me when I was a very young child.

The first school I attended was a small building

that went from first to sixth grade.

There was one teacher for all of the students.

There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior

more than simple behavior.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

I was in high school when

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

I had the courage to walk into a school when no one would.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten

what one has learned in school.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation

will be the philosophy of government in the next.

I consider the world,

this Earth,

to be like a school,

and our life the classrooms.

God made the Idiot for practice,

and then He made the School Board.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.