Quotes with schools

  • I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
  • The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
  • The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
  • Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinking fountains, separate restrooms, separate neighborhoods, and separate schools. They still were expected to sit at the back of the bus.
  • We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often be the last big subsidy we give the children we've raised.
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  • Abraham Lincoln Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Joyce Carey A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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  • Joyce Cary A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry, a hundred in dress.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • Barry Ritholtz A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not their family connections nor ties to Ivy League schools or elite banks, but rather the strength of their research, analysis and writing.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bobby Scott Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ban Ki-moon By including children with different learning abilities in mainstream and specialized schools, we can change attitudes and promote respect. By creating suitable jobs for adults with autism, we integrate them into society.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Campbell Brown By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Campbell Brown Education has not traditionally been a large concern in presidential elections, presumably because the president does not run schools.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bruce Dickinson Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bob Ehrlich Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • Bob Taft Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.
    Bob Taft
    American politician and attorney (1942 - )
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  • Martin Luther I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • John W. Gardner I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Henry Fielding I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Walt Whitman I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Bailee Madison I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on location, I just get the packets from schools in Florida. And when I go to Florida, I go to Christ Church School.
    Bailee Madison
    American actress (1999 - )
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  • Anna Howard Shaw If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Campbell Brown In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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