School Quotes

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

“School is a mother that receives her children from the arms of another mother, the family, to educate and instruct them.”

“I was hopeless at school. I was very good at playing the fool and getting a laugh.”

“I was the class clown, but I was also a straight-A student.”

“Schools are the workshops of humanity.”

“Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school.”

“The school is the nursery of humanity.”

“If we are to have an educated and informed population, we need a viable public school system.”

“School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?”

“The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.”

“You go to a great school not so much for knowledge as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts.”

“I was a weirdo. I wasn't picked on or anything. And I wasn't popular, I was just invisible. I was a ghost.”

“School is a place of instruction, but it is also a place of construction. Children are not only taught in school, they also build a sense of themselves there.”

“A school should be an institution with a personality.”

“Not all schooling is education, nor all education, schooling.”

“The school is the first social institution an individual is forced to attend. It is the first public experience of those who will be the public.”

“It is the function of the school to teach the young to accept the culture of their elders.”

“What is the use of a school if it is not a place of freedom?”

“High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it.”

“To a very great degree, school is a place where children learn to be stupid.”