Quotes with schools

Quotes 21 till 40 of 65.

  • Bobby Scott In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Pauline Kael Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
    Pauline Kael
    American film critic (0 - 2001)
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  • Alice Miller It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Camille Paglia It's these guys in the Ivy League schools who get used to obeying women. They're sedentary guys. It's ironic that you're getting the biggest bitching about men from the schools where the men are just eunuchs and bookworms.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Horace Mann 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
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Carl Bernstein John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Boris Johnson Labour's appalling agenda, encouraging the teaching of homosexuality in schools, and all the rest of it.
    The Spectator 15 April 2000
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Campbell Brown Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Cat Stevens Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Ben Elliot My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson 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.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • William John Bennett Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools
    William John Bennett
    American politician, and political theorist (1943 - )
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  • Carrie-Anne Moss People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
    Carrie-Anne Moss
    Canadian actress (1967 - )
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  • Henry Fielding Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bill Cosby Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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