School quotations

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◆ The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.

- Jean Piaget99

◆ A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.

- Ruth Beechick99

◆ In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

- Robert T. Kiyosaki99

◆ I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.

- John Green99

◆ Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.

- George Carlin99

◆ You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.

- Christopher Hitchens99

◆ They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

- Margaret Atwood99

◆ Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

- Neal Shusterman99

◆ Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

- May Sarton99

◆ School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

- Ambeth R. Ocampo99

◆ My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her ears and then neon orange to the frizzy ends. I can't decide if she had pissed off her hairdresser or is morphing into a monarch butterfly. I call her Hairwoman.

- Laurie Halse Anderson99

◆ Most bullies are the product of a stressful and often abusive home life. Next time a bully threatens or attacks you, just yell, 'Don't abuse me like your parents abuse you!' Then call children's services and tell them you saw this bully crying in the bathroom and you're worried about him. Bam! He just got moved to a foster home.

- Eugene Mirman99

◆ School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.

- Jim Benton99

◆ That awkward moment when your crush is absent from school, and you wasted a really cute outfit.

- 99

◆ That awkward moment when you finish a math problem and your answer isn't even one of the choices.

- Ritu Ghatourey99