School Quotes

The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility.

Bronislaw Malinowski

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been

Josh Billings

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue

Friedrich von Schiller

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

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

Virginia Woolf

A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it.

Emile Capouya

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.

Theodore Roosevelt

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy

Thomas Carlyle

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

Heinrich Heine

Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.

Maya Angelou

The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten. . .

Arthur Schomburg

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

William Haley

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

Unknown

School's out, Memories past, Don't ever doubt, Our friendship will last.

Unknown

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

Oscar Wilde