#School Quotes

“How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.”

“I was at the foot of my class.”

“When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.”

“What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?”

“In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence.”

“I've never let my school interfere with my education.”

“We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.”

“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.”

“In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.”

“School is a place were you go to eat your lunch”

“School gets in the way of my learning.”

“On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.”

“No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why this particular name I have no idea.”

“Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.”

“The problem with education is school.”

“Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.”

“All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.”

“I went to a white school over here in Mason, Michigan. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.”

“School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.”

“There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.”

“The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.”

“School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.”

“No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.”

“From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.”

“The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.”

“School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.”

“There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.”

“It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.”

“My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.”

“Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.”

“Nobody's cooler than my two girls. They just seem to take whatever comes with, you know - happiness and - steadiness. And they're loving school. They're making friends... and - they've already joined some clubs. And Sasha, you know - I think maybe to endear - myself to her, she - she decided she wanted to join a basketball team. So - what more could I want?”

“Phrases and their actual meanings: My teacher has never liked me. Expect a phone call before lunch from the teacher informing you that your child has been launching hot dogs by compressing them inside a small Thermos and then removing the lid quickly.”

“My English teacher wanted to have sex with me in Junior High. The only problem was, my English teacher was a guy. I smacked him in his face with an eraser, chased him with a stapler and stapled his nuts to a stack of papers.”

“A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.”

“I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.”

“The voice belonged to Mr. Pzyrbovich, an algebra teacher who was always called Mr. P, for obvious reasons. He has a heavy accent, which a lot of kids said made him hard to understand, although to be fair some of these kids would have never understood algebra anyway.”

“If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.”

“I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.”