Quotes on Schools

No, the czar did not want us in the schools.

Author: Mary Antin

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

Author: Michael Bloomberg

We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.

Author: Nick Cannon

The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.

Author: Gaston Caperton

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

Author: James Coleman

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

Author: Rita Dove

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

Author: John Engler

Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic.

Author: Mark Foley

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

Author: Maggie Gallagher

Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

Author: Jonathan Kozol

Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools.

Author: Jeremy London

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Author: Martin Luther

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Author: Horace Mann

There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate.

Author: Chi McBride

You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes.

Author: Moses Mendelssohn

Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.

Author: Kelly Millar

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

Author: Estelle Morris

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

Author: Will Rogers

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

Author: George Stigler

We have been so pleased with the response to our unique schools in the Nashville area, and we are confident that other areas will embrace our concept, as well.

Author: Scott Thompson