Quotes

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own.
-Bill Watterson

Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.
-Bill Dodds

Those who get lost on the way to school will never find their way through life.
-German Proverb

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
-Smiley Blanton

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.
-Margaret Laurence

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.
-Kahlil Gibran

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
-Aristotle

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.
-Dana Stewart Scott

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
-Anonymous Author

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
-Henry Brooks Adams

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
-Kurt Vonnegut

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
-Sydney J. Harris

Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?
-Warren Hutcherson

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
-Samuel Smiles

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life.
-Ernest Renan

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
-W.H. Auden

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
-Alvin Toffler

Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number.
-Anonymous Author

I don't know how to be happy - They didn't teach it in my school.
-Ashleigh Brilliant

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
-Edgar W. Howe

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
-John Keats

I've never let my school interfere with my education.
-Mark Twain

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
-John Dewey

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
-Robert Maynard Hutchins

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.
-Anonymous Author

There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August.
-Anonymous Author

Do not let school get in the way of a good education.
-Loesje

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
-Tom Bodett

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.
-Hart Pomerantz

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School BoardMark.
-Twain

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
-William Arthur Ward

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
-George Bernard Shaw

I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.
-Bernard Keble Sandwell

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
-Lily Tomlin as Edith Ann

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
-Ralph W. Sockman