#schools

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system. ↗

— William Glasser

#hundred #improve #keep #long #nothing

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. ↗

— William Glasser

#application #educational #facts #focus #knowledge

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked. ↗

— Eminem

#different schools #ever #go #i #like

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents. ↗

— John Engler

#creation #expand #limit #new #ought

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#american cities #children #cities #cross #families

We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#because #better #care #depends #health

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich. ↗

— James Loeb

#ancient #attention #classical #could #day

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. ↗

— Carrie-Anne Moss

#certain point #certain way #design #how #life

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#deal #events #going #great #great deal

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#adulthood #children #could #designed #educational