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We've taken some performing arts schools on the set of 'Breaking Bad.' — Steven Michael Quezada

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well. — Michael N. Castle

The Big Investments of tomorrow need not be on the Stock Exchange. They need to be in our schools. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Nor are there singing schools but studying monuments of its own magnificence. — W.B.Yeats

Every year law schools churn out thousands of lawyers. We don't need any more lawyers. We need more lawyers like we need more talk-show hosts. — Craig Ferguson

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better. — C.S. Lewis

As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards. — George W. Bush

I was in, like, nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger. — Jessica Stroup

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. — B.F. Skinner

Failure to recognize learning styles in public schools has promoted a standard lecture format for teaching, which has frustrated the learning of many. — Rick Blackwood

I love these alternative schools! No one hassles me here over being a crazed, notorious serial killer! — Spike Chunsoft

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good. — Camilla Lackberg

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. — Horace Mann

I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States. — Thomas A. Edison

It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women. — Henry David Thoreau

The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time. — Drew Carey

Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays. — Adam Carolla

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons? — Fran Lebowitz

The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success. — Wendy Kopp

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom — Sigrid Undset

Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with. — Timothy Leary

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department — Diane Ravitch

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

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another. — John Cage

That the best students from mediocre schools were almost always a better bet than good students from the very best schools. — Malcolm Gladwell

No, the czar did not want us in the schools. — Mary Antin

Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools. — David Souter

We're asking schools to look at kids as partners in education. — Jill Vialet

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up. — Kris Allen

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. — E.W. Howe

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money. — Ben Stein

The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing. — Peter Lynch

Iran wants the money. And I don't believe they want it for roads or hospitals or schools, I believe they want it for more terror. — John Barrasso

WILL ALIGNMENT
Despot's ultimate goal, using terror as his tool in trade = Corporal punishment in schools
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect. — Horace Mann

Kids are coming out earlier and earlier - some, as young as twelve now - and schools need to take that into account. — Ian McKellen

Someone should say that; why we shouldn't burn their schools and destroy their buildings and infrastructures instead of burning our own homes. — M.F. Moonzajer

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail. — Benjamin Barber

The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias. — F. LaGard Smith

John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools. — Douglas Brinkley

I was born on June 3rd, 1929, in Graenichen in the Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, where I went to the public schools until the age of 16. — Werner Arber

There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!' — Robert Wilson

There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids. — Mark Jackson

Ethan, your father and I didn't break our necks to send you to private schools that taught you to say 'yep' instead of 'yes. — Kevin D. Patterson

What do schools do that for?" he grumbles. "What's the point of summer if they give you homework?"
"Exactly! — Victoria Schwab

Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place. — Eugenie Scott

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools. — Andy Rooney

Maybe they were. I don't know. Maybe they
weren't. But they felt like the real thing, and the real thing wanted to make money off me. — James Patterson

Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk! — Bette Midler

American politician doesWe're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America. — Pat Buchanan

Football players are busy (with) study halls and tutoring. Well, anyway, at South Carolina they are. I don't know about all these other schools. — Steve Spurrier

All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon. — Ray Kurzweil

Schools are a fountain of knowledge: some students come to drink , some to sip and others just to gargle. — Shiv Khera

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing. — Roddy Doyle

The changes that are needed in schools will take root more readily if local and national policies actually support them. — Ken Robinson

I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both. — Judy Blume

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do. — Thomas Sowell

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. — William Glasser

It is better to support schools than jails. — Mark Twain

Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development. — G. Stanley Hall

The better the school library, the higher the reading scores. — Stephen D. Krashen

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools. — Ken Robinson

I wish I had more time to visit schools. — Cornelia Funke

If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it. — Chris Crutcher

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible. — Julia Ward Howe

I am all for getting Prayer/Religion back into the schools. And while we're at it we should get more Science/Physics into the church ... — George Martin

When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country. — Kym Whitley

The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses. — Albert Einstein

Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven. — Andy Hargreaves

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt. — Kevin McCarthy

I didn't go to Ivy League schools. I dropped out of college to go into movies. — Rob Lowe

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art. — Oscar Wilde

In schools, many kids are asked, "What is your plan?," but many aren't even thinking that far ahead. — Raheem Devaughn

The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now. — Donalyn Miller

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice. — Mary Wollstonecraft

All schools are bad and the one we attend is always the worst if it doesn't open our eyes. What — Thomas Bernhard

I couldn't go to school with whites. Now there are schools that educate everyone. — Joe Frazier

I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire. — Philippe Petit

Schools are not equal. There are still the haves and the have-nots. — Erin Gruwell

From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now. — John Kricfalusi

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning? — Seymour Sarason

I really like visiting schools, but what I tell students isn't anywhere near as interesting to me as what they tell me. — Eric Schlosser

Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick. — Noreena Hertz

I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life. — Martin Scorsese

We should fill the syllabuses of schools with lessons about love and compassion. — Mata Amritanandamayi

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools. — Jim DeMint

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials. — May Sarton

Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals. — Stephen Kinzer

I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools. — Jack Kemp

Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it. — Nicholas Sparks

Humanity need not be taught in schools, it is a gift and skill one should master. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy

America's schools and streets are safer than Americans know. — Bill Dedman

The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king. — Ted Sizer

The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging. — Phillip C. Schlechty

Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to big companies. — Srikumar Rao

It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools. — Adam Weishaupt

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. — Warren Buffett

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through. — Sam Levenson

Educated fools; from uneducated schools. — Curtis Mayfield

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism? — Richard M. Nixon