Words matter. These are the best Schooling Quotes from famous people such as Ivan Illich, Stella McCartney, Hermione Gingold, Michael Leunig, Wendell Berry, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’ve nothing against schools! I’m against compulsory schooling.
It’s one of my biggest internal struggles – the whole schooling system in London and the fact that my kids are going to a posh school. It freaks me out.
I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.
It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it’s actually quite conservative.
If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
If I could, I would like my son to study in Jamshedpur, where I did my schooling.
As young Australians, the value of teamwork has been instilled in us throughout our schooling.
I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.
I went to university for a year, and I’m not one for schooling and have no enjoyment sitting in a classroom all day and ended up going to live in England for two years, just to travel. I worked in a bar in a hotel for a couple of years and had no intention of becoming an actor. That’s where I met my agent.
I don’t know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.
All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
My father’s schooling during the 1930s was heavy with memorization; eight decades later, he is reaping the benefits.
The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start.
To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune’s laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.
I say all the time I think there should be some courses in the regular schooling system that isn’t, even like about credit, things that matter later in life. I learned the harder way: ‘Look, I got a $500 credit card in the mail, let’s go shopping!’
I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.
My secondary schooling was at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, so I’m fond of that part of the world. It’s quintessentially English, with village greens, pubs and cricket pitches, and resonates strongly with me.
Basically, my socialization as a child didn’t come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
Low income persons in need of social housing should be housed in more prosperous areas to avoid placing an extra burden on the poorer areas and to redress the balance in terms of housing, redressing the balance in terms of schooling.
Schooling is so important.
In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.
I’ve done all my schooling at Chennai – it’s always home for me. All my growing up years have been spent here, and I have really fond memories associated with the city.
The bottom line is we believe that parents are the best equipped to make choices for their children’s schooling and education decisions.
We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.
Dogs are not people. Be leery of any woman who refers to her dogs as her ‘kids,’ because you’ll only end up paying for their schooling.
I progressed through my schooling, undergraduate and graduate degrees, excited about math and science and engineering, but really didn’t think about being an astronaut at that point. It was kind of unreachable.
High-profile columnists should remember they are in a privileged position. Writing isn’t a dreadfully specific skill – it’s taught to millions via our schooling system. And opinions? Well, I’ve yet to meet people without opinions.
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
Schooling people in the ways of ongoing discernment produces a greater receptivity to the tradition of the church and at the same time creates the freedom that will make them more responsive to the will of God throughout their lives.
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one’s share in the world’s work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
My schooling was disrupted by the shortage of labor during World War I. It meant foregoing high school. Then, late in 1921, I entered upon a short course in agriculture at South Dakota State College. I managed to enter college in 1924, and I was permitted to complete my college work in three years.
I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn’t like school very much so I had to come up with something else.
I did schooling and graduation from Delhi and then went to the National School of Drama.
I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
I never let schooling interfere with my education.
Maybe it was the home tutoring, or the late start to formal schooling, or an overly cautious and protective upbringing, but in any case, I never became a talkative person. As an adult, I am not always comfortable in social gatherings with small talk. I must have inherited my father’s gentle nature.
While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
By the time I was 12, I was starting my high school stuff in home schooling.
My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle’s house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet.
Performing arts was something I was always part of. That was may be the only common thread that ran throughout my education, throughout my schooling years. But apart from that, there were no friends or no long term associations. That was the only thing I knew was with me wherever I went.
After my schooling, I started theatre. By the time I graduated, I was doing theatre 24×7. Luckily, the FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) acting course started.
I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.
Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
I don’t think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don’t know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn’t. Some of them went and dropped out.
I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things… and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.
For being a young guy, I’m articulate and can hold a decent conversation with somebody. But I’ve been able to do that since I was young. I don’t think that has to do too much with schooling, it has more to do with the people I was raised around, my parents. I have respect for adults.
Public schooling fosters our common identity as Americans sharing a land of diversity. It promotes the American ideal of opportunity for all, not just some. It cultivates the civic values of respecting individuals as well as collective responsibility.
Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.
At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.
Film was something that I didn’t see as a step up from music videos, though obviously, music videos, the fact that you work with a crew and a film camera, are the closest to film I’ve ever been. That is the only schooling I’ve ever had.
Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
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