Home / Topics / School Quotes

School Quotes

Browse 14286 quotes about School.

School Quotes

“When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life.”

School Pay Growing Up Growing Tough My Family Aids Fees Popcorn Doughnut After School Tough Life Kool Aid

Author:George Weah

“For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.”

Years School Education Students Lows Aids Income Primaries Serving Public School Private School Low Income School Years Secondary School

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“Everybody thinks that you go to Africa and you build a school, or you teach English, or you build a hospital. But actually all you need to do is play football with kids for six months and then after they've trusted you, you tell them about the truth of Aids, and that their grandmother didn't die from witchcraft, she died from Aids. And that's the biggest difference you can make.”

Thinking Needs Play Kids School Dies Differences Teach Football Months Six Died Aids Grandmother Hospitals Trusted Six Months Witchcraft

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Because we are unqualifiedly and without reservation against any system of denominational schools, maintained by the adherents of any creed with the help of state aid, therefore, we as strenuously insist that the public schools shall be free from sectarian influences, and above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.”

States Helping School Attitude Atheism Influence Particular Positive Atheism Aids Creeds Public School Hostility Reservations

Book:Writings

Source: Writings

“There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.”

Source: Marva Collins Way