Best generations & school Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.”

People Years Home School Past Three Gone Generations Modern Ready Cooks Meals Relevant Modern Life Over The Past Home Life Three Generations Processed Food Takeaways

Author:Jamie Oliver

“Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.”

Use Age Today School Young Social Technology Generations Media Communication Phones Entertainment Social Media Exposed Young Women Young Age Mobile Tablets Mobile Phones School Work

Author:Susan Wojcicki

“Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.”

People School Young Education Generations Style Information Students Demand Steady Self Education Cafeteria

Author:Edward Hirsch

“From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.”

Firsts School Common Sun Generations Students High School Awe Heroism Affliction My Generation Sun Also Rises

Book:Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir

Source: Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir

“Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind.”

“Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true.”

Has Beens Government School Generations Heard Information Students Taught Drug High School Police Including Factual High School Students

Author:Ann Shulgin

“The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation.”

People Ifs Way School Break Written Generations Tomorrow Break Out Exam School System Enclosure

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.”

Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe

“Although our grammar schools are teaching a whole generation computer language to adjust to the technological needs of a Stage II [post survival-focused] society, we have neglected to teach this generation relationship language and conflict resolution skills to address the social and psychological needs of a Stage II society. And when it is taught, in countries like Germany, although called social competence it focuses on workplace teamwork - still on survival, breadwinner oriented work goals.”

“The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind.”

Mind Humans Stills School Growth Generations Exercise Limits Authority Blind Generous Human Mind Disciple Plato Deference Plato And Aristotle

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1

“The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.”

Thinking Wisdom School Politics Ability Results Economy Generations Western Liberalism Coming Out

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place.”

School Next Leader Generations Atheism Positive Atheism Educated Next Generation Public School Cultural Exchange

Author:Eugenie Scott

“When I first started out, it was very, very difficult to even get in the room with directors or casting directors because they would see that I hadn't been to drama school and wouldn't want to see me. Now, I feel like it's changing. We have this new generation of a lot of writers, directors and actors who are just breaking through, and they're doing it for the passion.”

Want Feels Firsts School Passion Actors Difficult Rooms Generations Drama Directors Casting New Generation Casting Directors

Author:Kaya Scodelario

“If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time.”

Ifs Children Two Self School Parent Lines Education Generations Messages Towns Locals Temples Betterment Better Yourself

Book:At Large

Source: At Large

“What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a long job through. ... Helping children to face up to a certain amount of drudgery, cheerfully and energetically, is one of the biggest problems that teachers, in these days of ubiquitous entertainment, have to face in our schools.”

Source: Chronicles of Fairacre, Comprising Village School, Village Diary, and Storm in the Village

“I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable.”

Believe Humor School Past Left Religious Effort Generations Positive Atheism Vulnerable Collectives Squares Sincerely Expulsion Past Generations Collective Effort

Author:Jerry Falwell

“We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war”

Has Beens War Hard School Past Generations Danger

Author:Alexander the Great

“Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.”

School Courses Education Generations Students Harvard This Generation

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams

“Jim Dean and Elvis were the spokesmen for an entire generation. When I was in acting school in New York, years ago, there was a saying that if Marlon Brando changed the way people acted, then James Dean changed the way people lived. He was the greatest actor who ever lived. He was simply a genius.”

People Ifs Way Years School Actors Acting Generations New York Changed Genius Years Ago Dean Brando

Author:Martin Sheen

“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today's children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”

Source: Children Without Childhood

“So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.”

Years Kids School Next Community Brain Education Comedy Generations Ready Social Media Storm East Coast Next Year Drains East Coast Brain Drain

Author:Olivia Wilde

“At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.”

“Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?”

World Book School Practice Teacher Generations Lucky Paper West Library Luxury Our Generation Venues Gateways Tryouts

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?”

Source: The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I feel education is more important even now for the younger generation than when I was younger. The kids really need to buckle down and get a good education. That's why it's so important to have computer programs and good tutoring programs, so they can have fun in school. It also keeps them out of trouble.”

Needs Feels Important Kids School Fun Generations Trouble Computer Program Down And Having Fun Younger Generation Good Education Buckles

Author:Albert Belle

“I'm an old school guy and love the guys in the monster suits and JAWS; even though everyone makes fun of the shark I think it's awesome. You know it's fake, but with my generation that was part of the charm.”

Thinking Knows School Guy Fun Generations And Love Monsters Suits Fake Charm Sharks My Generation Old School

Author:Larry Fessenden

“One of the things I know about my family, my generation, and my ethic background is that we put in work and I'm not just talking about just to eat. You have to think about the civil rights movement, they were putting in work; marching, walking miles and miles, sacrificing, getting on the bus, feeding one another, they had schools, voter registration, they were working! They were hard workers so my advice is to work.”

“We've kind of grown up in a post-Star Wars era, and what Star Wars did to cinema, in terms of an explosion of that kind of blockbuster culture. It's thrown up a generation of geeks. With the evolution of computer games and the Internet, that's all impacted on us as a generation, and affected the creative element of that generation enormously. So whereas the different schools of filmmaking...”

“Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.”

Persons School Generations Catholic Raised My Generation Catechism

Author:Cillian Murphy

“Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who cant write their own language.”

Writing Age School Language Results Generations Middle Military Late Forbidden Cant Middle Ages Kurds

Author:Luke Harding

“Postmodernism, the school of 'thought' that proclaimed 'There are no truths, only interpretations' has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it has left behind a generation of academics in the humanities disabled by their distrust of the very idea of truth and their disrespect for evidence, settling for 'conversations' in which nobody is wrong and nothing can be confirmed, only asserted with whatever style you can muster.”

Ideas School Humanity Left Behinds Generations Style Conversation Evidence Settling Interpretation Absurdity Distrust Left Behind Disabled Disrespect Postmodernism Muster

Author:Daniel Dennett

“Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,and dismiss whatever insults your own soul... It is also not consistent with the reality of the soul to admit that there is anything in the known universe more divine than men and women. The master knows that he is unspeakably great and that all are unspeakably great. There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place.A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man,and every man shall be his own priest.”

“There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them.”

Ifs Thinking Children Whole School Generations Happened Taught Capable Contrast Neurotic

Author:Doris Lessing

“I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible.”

School Generations Terrible Machines Old School Texting Answering Machines Older Generation

Author:Igor Levit

“A lot of it starts with playing instruments and working with other people. Some of the new generation is doing it on computers and they don't have a clue as to how to play anything. That's probably one of the problems. They don't know how to make the melody, go through the chord changes. They're not starting from that same school of thought.”

People Knows Play Problem School Know How Generations Computer Instruments Starting Melody Clue Chords New Generation Working With Others Playing Instruments

Author:Ray Parker, Jr.

“We still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from the Dominican Republic to Haiti. Some tell of being taken off buses because they looked Haitian, and their families have been in the Dominican Republic for generations. Haitian children born in the Dominican Republic still can't go to school and are forced to work in the sugarcane fields.”

People Children Has Beens Stills School Born Taken Generations Fields Republic Bus Haiti Haitian Dominican Republic

Author:Edwidge Danticat

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