Quotes on “school”

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

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

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.

My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.Am I a troubled kid?Yeah. You could say that.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

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

Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

I'll be famous one day, but for now I'm stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.

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