Best Primary School Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Hannah wanted to put the next day's work on the blackboard. This would mean that she needn't turn her back on the class first thing, which is as unwise in junior teaching as in lion-taming.”

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Book:At Freddie's

Source: At Freddie's

“I learnt that in teaching young children the concept of number, you should start with the concrete, then move to the pictorial, before finally representing numbers in the abstract. I learnt that children should be encouraged to articulate their processes, and feed back to each other on whether they are right or wrong, and why. And I learnt that this is so children understand number concepts, not just procedures, because (though not only because) the PSLE tests understanding, not just memorisation. As I was chatting to the professor in the car as she gave me a lift to the station, she also expounded on the importance of teacher-student relationships – 'you can't touch their brain until you have touched their heart'.”

Children Education Learning Teaching Travel Primary School Maths Numeracy Metacognition

Book:Cleverlands: The secrets behind the success of the world's education superpowers

Source: Cleverlands: The secrets behind the success of the world's education superpowers

“Nog één keer zaten met z'n allen in die bol, waarna de gymleraar het teken gaf, we opstonden en we uit alle macht de parachute omhoogtrokken en loslieten. De parachute vloog naar boven en leek daar even te zweven. En daarmee was het speelmoment over.”

Growing Up Puberty Primary School

Book:Confettiregen

Source: Confettiregen

“Grandma; it was to grandma I truly wanted to have returned, but she was no more. I could only remember the day she died. The tears mother shed on me, as if I was going to face a more difficult world than any other member of our family. Pg.100”

Tears Africa Grandma Nigeria Primary School Traditional Tales Little Children Uromi

Book:Still Owing Me Goodbye

Source: Still Owing Me Goodbye

“There is something about sudden darkness in a classroom of twenty-four sixth graders that sets off mischief. There was giggling on one side of the room. Spitballs on the other.”

Childhood Innocence Primary School

Book:P.S. Be Eleven

Source: P.S. Be Eleven

“My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.”

School Teacher Shoes Drunk Primaries Shops Bottles Throat Milk School Teachers Barbers Primary School Barber Shop

Author:Paul O'Grady

“Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.”

“In primary school, every day and especially on Fridays, I was supposed to say, 'I am Turkish, and I am righteous and hardworking,' But all those things did not actually turn us into Turks. This system is somehow creating fake personalities.”

School Turns Personality Creating Primaries Fake Righteous Friday Turkish Hardworking Primary School

Author:Osman Baydemir

“In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.”

Knows Years Kind School Stars Dark Theater Screens Primaries Atmosphere Uncles Movie Star Lighting Primary School

Author:Andrew Lau

“Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.”

People School Liberty Democracy Towns Meetings Primaries Primary School

Book:Democracy in America: Volumes I & II

Source: Democracy in America: Volumes I & II

“I was pretty much a mess out of primary school. I really experienced a lot more of that stuff from the ages of seven to twelve, where there was a really popular girl at my school, and I was obsessed with her, like you'd go to jail for that stuff today. I'm so embarrassed to say this, but I was in tears one day, because I couldn't sit next to her.”

Age Today School Girl Next Stuff Tears Like You One Day Seven Mess Primaries Obsessed Jail Twelve Embarrassed Primary School Really Popular Popular Girl

Author:Charlize Theron

“After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.”

Firsts Wells School Cities Achievement Primaries Grades Academic Forte Primary School Stellar Academic Achievement Penmanship

Author:Vernon L. Smith

“What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their children's school reports. This is particularly true for primary schools. Parents wanted to know much more than just how their children were doing academically.”

Knows Children Said Wanted School Parent Teacher Information Primaries Discussion Reports Primary School School Reports

Author:Carol J. Adams

“I like to keep people around me like the guys I have on the road with me, three of them were childhood friends of mine when I was growing up in Scotland. They don't look at me any different than when we were in primary school. So it's good to keep people like that around you. I think if you surround yourself with good honest people, they will tell you what to hear when you need to hear it.”

“I know I earn less at my primary school than you do, but I don't have to work as hard at my primary school.”

Knows Hard School Primaries Primary School

Author:Arthur Adamov

“In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.”

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Author:Catherine Jinks

“It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a first-class university for the education of colored menand I wish to put in this caveatthat the colored race today, all of them, would be better off if they all had university education.... Of course, the basis of education of the colored people is in the primary schools and in industrial schools.... In those schools must be introduced teachers from such university institutions as this.”

“Starting from the primary schools, there must be compulsory 'Cosmos' classes throughout the education period. If a man thinks about and understands the universe, he will have wider horizons; he will be much less conceited and much more realistic.”

Ifs Thinking Men School Universe Education Class Periods Starting Primaries Cosmos Horizon Realistic Conceited Compulsory Primary School

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I've always been quite an active person especially when I was younger. When I was in primary school, I used to play lots of sports. I was a sprinter and I did basketball and swimming and Gaelic football and things like that. So I always thought, I guess, that it would be fun to incorporate that much physical activity and work into a dramatic piece.”

Persons Play Would Be School Used Fun Sports Pieces Football Activity Basketball Active Primaries Dramatic Swimming Physical Activity Primary School Gaelic Sprinters

Author:Saoirse Ronan

“If I'd loved my chemistry teacher and my maths teacher, goodness knows what direction my life might have gone in. I remember there was a primary school teacher who really woke me up to the joys of school for about one year when I was ten. He made me interested in things I would otherwise not have been interested in - because he was a brilliant teacher. He was instrumental in making me think learning was quite exciting.”

“The last time I threw a punch was in primary school, and that was probably a slap.”

School Lasts Primaries Last Time Slap Primary School

Author:Martin Compston

“In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing in secondary school. In university, Mubarak was still president of Egypt. I came to assume, subconsciously, that he - and others like Paul Biya in Cameroon and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya - would never leave.”

Stills School President Taught Assuming South University Primaries Egypt Eastern Nigeria Libya Primary School Gaddafi Secondary School Mubarak Cameroon Muammar Gaddafi

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“When I was younger and in primary school, I'd do maybe a film a year, and I had to adapt to being away from everyone for a couple of months.”

Years School Film Months Couple Primaries Primary School

Author:Saoirse Ronan

“I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers.”

Years School Teacher Primaries Worried Butterfly Bullied Classmates Being Bullied Primary School

Author:Robert Winston

“I remember my mum explaining to me what adoption meant when I was still at primary school. 'Son,' she said to me, 'you didn't grow under my heart, you grew in it'.”

Heart Said Stills School Remember Grows Son Grew My Heart Primaries Mum Adoption Explaining Primary School

Author:Michael Gove

“Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I'm seeing a lot of countries look at this now.”

World Looks Country School Girl Quality Boys Seeing Rate Around The World Primaries Primary School Secondary School

Author:Melinda Gates

“It's funny when I look at my life; my primary school was two-thirds male to one-third female. So I started my life that way. I have two brothers. And when I did Harry Potter, the ratio was more often than not, at the very least, one-third female, two-thirds male.”

Way Looks Two School Brother Female Thirds Males Primaries Harry Potter Potters Ratios Two Brothers Primary School

Author:Emma Watson

“I was a dreamer when I was at high school and even primary school. I used to dream about doing adventurous things.”

Dream School Used High School Primaries Dreamer Adventurous Primary School

Author:Edmund Hillary

“I also got encouragement from my teachers at primary school but one person in particular who had a significant impact on my lean towards art is Mr. Luigi St. Omer. Mr. St. Omer was the one who always reminded me that I should not settle for less than greatness in my art. He saw that I had the potential and he helped me develop that talent.”

Should Persons Art School Saws Teacher Talent Greatness Particular Art Is Encouragement Impact Significant Primaries Settling Primary School

Author:St. Lucia

“I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.”

Years School Used Teach Teaching Thirds Primaries Grades Fourth Fifth Kindergarten Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade Primary School

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.”

Writing Years Done School Mistake Class Thirds Primaries Fourth Pupils Spelling Primary School Spelling Mistakes

Author:Jose Saramago

“I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don't have to explain anything to them. I don't have to apologize for anything. They know. There's no judgment in any way.”

Knows Way Stills Two School Judgment Primaries Girlfriend Apologizing Primary School Secondary School Best Girlfriend

Author:Emma Watson

“I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work with now, Artists for Peace and Justice, visiting the primary school that I had adopted, the Academy for Peace and Justice in Port-au-Prince. I came back, and within days, the earthquake happened.”

School Artist Justice Happened Organization Primaries Adopted Academy Earthquakes Visiting Port Peace And Justice Haiti Primary School

Author:Olivia Wilde

“Scientists need to be prepared to engage, and the best people to engage with are students, ideally from primary school because there's no question that their capacity to work out complex things is extremely good.”

People Needs School Students Capacity Scientist Prepared Complexes Work Out Primaries Be Prepared Primary School

Author:Robert Winston

“I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.”

Play School Sports Deals Primaries Primary School

Author:Frank Bruno

“schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept that the family is the primary school for love. those of us who do not learn how to love among family are expected to experience love in romantic relationships. however this love often eludes us.”

Knows Stills School Accepting Know How Evidence Assuming Expected Contrary Despite Primaries Overwhelming How To Love Elude Romantic Relationship Primary School Elude Us Experience Love

Book:All About Love: New Visions

Source: All About Love: New Visions

“It was quite tough, not many opportunities. I remember in primary school, one of my teachers said, "As for you young man, you haven't got much of a future."”

Men Inspirational Said School Remember Young Opportunity Challenges Business Teacher Havens Tough Criticism Primaries Young Man Primary School

Author:John Ilhan

“Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools nearby that educate children, free of charge... It means building a world fit for children, where every child can grow to adulthood in health, peace and dignity.”

World Mean Children Doe War School Grows Education Building Fit Creating Dignity Educational Absence Primaries Educate Adulthood Literacy Education And Literacy Primary School

Author:Carol Bellamy

“In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.”

Wells Philosophy School Literature Principles Educational Impression Primaries Multiple Primary School School Work

Author:William James

“I was very aggressive as a child. At primary school in London my attitude was 'If you don't do what I say, I'll knowk you out', and I was eventually expelled for fighting.”

Ifs Children School Fighting Attitude London Primaries Aggressive My Attitude Primary School

Author:Lennox Lewis

“At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I went to a run-of-the-mill Catholic primary school when we first moved to L.A. But then I went to a high school where there were lots of 'industry' children. Those weren't my best friends and I've never set out to make myself a part of that scene.”

Way Firsts Children Running Kids School Industry Scene High School Catholic Moved Primaries Hanging Out My Best Friend Mills Primary School

Author:Lily Collins

“I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementarys school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.”

Years Firsts Play School Primaries Santa Santa Claus School Plays Primary School Panache

Author:James Frecheville

“I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.”

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Author:John Hume

“Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science: they bring it within the people's reach, and teach them how to use and enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.”

People May Use Government School Spirit Nations Enjoy Liberty Teach Institutions Locals Primaries Assembly Free Government Primary School

Book:The Republic of the United States of America: And Its Political Institutions, Reviewed and Examined

Source: The Republic of the United States of America: And Its Political Institutions, Reviewed and Examined

“My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.”

Years Firsts School Mother Father Study Taught Duty Involved My Family Thirds Primaries Aggravation Primary School

Author:Emma Bonino

“Probably my first memory of theatre, the first one I guess that had an impact on me was when I saw my very first panto with my Primary School. I think just going there and experience that for the first time, being so young, it's something that's actually stuck with me right up until now. And to think back and to sort of remember that magic and that first little hint of it was brilliant.”

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Author:Colin Morgan

“I, on the other hand, still might not be considered a proper adult. I had been very grown-up in primary school. But as I continued through secondary school, I in fact became less grown-up. And then as the years passed, I turned into quite a childlike person. I suppose I just wasn't able to ally myself with time.”

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Author:Hiromi

“When I was in primary school, my best friend was a boy and we always goofed around, climbed trees, got holes in my trousers and muddied all my tops and things like that; a complete nightmare for the washing, but great fun.”

School Fun Boys Tree Holes Primaries Nightmare My Best Friend Washing Trousers Primary School

Author:Maisie Williams

“My friends are the ones I've had since primary school. They're really cool and such a good bunch of people. They came to every one of my gigs before all of this happened, you know; they were there in the smoky pubs, wherever.”

People Knows School Happened My Friends Bunch Primaries Gigs Really Cool Pubs Primary School

Author:Leona Lewis

“I was literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all my life. I always, always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of twelve. I followed designer's careers. I knew Giorgio Armani was a window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro was a tailor.”

Years Book Age Wanted School Careers Fashion Window Drawing Primaries Designer Twelve Tailors Dressers Primary School Armani Secondary School

Author:Alexander McQueen

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