Best Great Schools Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”

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Author:John W. Gardner

“What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen.”

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Book:The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society

Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society

“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

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Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual posture, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regarding minute points of accuracy, for the habit of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage and mental soberness.”

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

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Book:Pieces of Eight Pa

Source: Pieces of Eight Pa

“Most of the time they buy what other people buy. They move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical. There is safety in numbers. If one wants Schnabel, they all want Schnabel, if one buys a Keith Haring, two hundred Keith Harings will be sold.”

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Book:The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

Source: The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

“Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.”

“News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. Newspapers might employ these periods searching for the breeding grounds of news, but they prefer to fill up with stories about Kurdled Kurds or Calvin Coolidge, until the banks close or a Hitler marches, when they are as surprised as their readers.”

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Author:A. J. Liebling

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”

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Author:Victor Hugo

“When I first started, I would go to Weist-Barron, and I studied with Rita Litton and ACTeen. For teenagers, it's a really, really great school. We did a lot of on-camera stuff, so you see yourself and what you do on camera.”

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Author:Daniella Alonso

“Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.”

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Author:Richard Attias

“Fifty years ago, great schools like the University of California and the City University of New York - as well as many state colleges - were tuition free. Today college is unaffordable for many working class families. For the sake of our economy and millions of Americans, we must make higher education more affordable.”

“The mission of a great school is not to cram you with facts so that you can regurgitate them...This gives many boys such a distaste for learning that they never read another book as long as they live. No, the mission is to inspire you with a taste for scholarship - a taste which will last you all your life.”

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Author:David Ogilvy

“I was pretty lucky, I went to a really great school. I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.”

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Author:Zoe Kravitz

“Stony Brook is a great school scholastically and I enjoyed my time there. It taught me a lot about life and about the future that I am living now. It is an honor to have graduated from there and to be recognized as an alumnus.”

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Author:Chris Algieri

“All this green stuff is great, it's great we don't have plastic bottles or plastic bags and all of that, but how about some great schools?”

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Author:Marc Benioff

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

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

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.”

“I wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted the education to be influenced by their religion, so I was going to these halfway education-slash-Christian schools that were like pop-up shop-style education.”

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Author:Katy Perry

“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

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Author:William Butler Yeats

“We are in a great school, and we should be diligent to learn, and continue to store up the knowledge of heaven and of earth, and read good books, although I cannot say that I would recommend the reading of all books, for it is not all books which are good. Read good books, and extract from them wisdom and understanding as much as you possibly can, aided by the Spirit of God. (JD 12:124)”

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Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.”

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection

“Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.”

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Author:James C. Collins

“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.”

“There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.”

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Author:Sivananda

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.”

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Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”

Book:Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit

Source: Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit

“The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“The Psalter is the great school of prayer.”

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Book:I Want to Live These Days with You: A Year of Daily Devotions

Source: I Want to Live These Days with You: A Year of Daily Devotions

“Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.”

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Author:Al-Maʿarri

“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”

Source: The Art of Thinking

“The examination of conscience has an important educational value. it teaches us to look sincerely at our own lives, to compare them with the truth of the Gospel and to evaluate them with parameters that are not only human but drawn from divine Revelation. Comparison with the Commandments, with the Beatitudes, and above all with the Precept to love, represents the first great 'school of penance”

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

Author:Will Durant

“I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. I gained from the discipline there.”

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Author:Mark Harmon

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”

“My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.”

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Author:Peter Facinelli