School - Quotes
Education is that which remains if one has forgotten everything else he learned in school.
The world isn`t run by the laws written on paper. It`s run by people. Some according to laws, others not. It depends on each individual how his world will be, how he makes it. And you also need a whole lot of luck, so that somebody else doesn`t make your life hell. And it ain`t as simple as they tell you in grade school. But it is good to have strong values and to maintain them. In marriage, in crime, in war, always and everywhere.
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven`t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven`t learned anything.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school - and you think I'm going to explain it to you so you can understand it? No, you are not going to be able understand it. [...] You see my physics students don't understand it either. That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.
Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems.
High school is such a compelling time period - it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating memories.
We`re all born with curiosity, but at some point, school usually manages to knock that out of us. I feel that my main responsibility as a teacher isn`t to convey facts, but to rekindle that lost enthusiasm for asking questions.
When students cheat on exams it`s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice?
The air smells sweeter and time stands still any day you`re in the world and everyone else is working or in school.
The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent.
If you live to be eighty, you’ll have slept thirty years away, gone to school and sat with homework for nine, and worked for almost fourteen. Since you’ve already spent more than six years being little kids and playing, and you’re later going to be spending at least twelve cleaning house, cooking food, and looking after your own kids, it means you’ve got nine years at most to live.