Words matter. These are the best Parochial Quotes from famous people such as Jeb Bush, Bobby Jindal, Jim Starlin, Pat Buchanan, Glenn McGrath, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.
It’s time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education.
I’d grown up very Catholic, parochial school, and Warlock was a way of working a lot of things out.
Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.
I’m a very loyal, parochial Australian and I can never say we’re going to lose a series.
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.
I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.
I have a direct way of speaking. What I do is tend to lay out everything; I tend to tell people what I’m going to do and how I’m going to do it and what is success for us and what’s not… without being too parochial about it, I think Aussies are more direct.
The people of NSW should not continue to be held hostage to a lowest common denominator approach that privileges the parochial interests of small populations.
Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings – by classmates, not the nuns – was to be the funny guy.
My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
My company, East West, was founded on the premise that people need to group together and not be xenophobic, parochial, or provincial.
We are living in a global world – but most schools and books still tell us only parochial histories of one particular country or culture. The truth is that there are no longer any independent countries in the world.
At a time when the Nation is becoming a more parochial concept, Tagore’s view of a liberal, open and a nation without borders and boundaries can give us hope and inspiration.
I envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices – public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, blended, and home education. They then can choose the model that best equips their children for success.
People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think ‘inward-looking and parochial.’ The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that.
In 50 years – or 20 years, or 200 years – our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.
How can any person with a myopic view and harbouring intense parochial attitude even think of leading the nation?
I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.
So, the point I’m making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it’s the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.
Contrary to general expectations, caste, regionalism, criminalisation, and parochial interests continue to sway the nation.
Empathy has some unfortunate features – it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We’re often at our best when we’re smart enough not to rely on it.
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
My father grew up in an era when to be an American – a white American, at least – was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.
I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus.
The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.
The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness.
I think, you know, people think of the city of New Orleans as a parochial place where it’s a lot of folks who are from there and a lot of big families, a lot of musical families, a lot of history, a lot of tradition, but I like to think of New Orleans as an idea.
