School Quotes, Sayings about school life
The fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.
- Richard DuFour
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
- Ivan Illich
To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.
- Leo Tolstoy
I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
- James Matthew Barrie
Sunday school: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
- H.L. Mencken
High School is the penalty for transgressions yet to be specified.
- Frank Portman
My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.
- Woody Allen
I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.
- Henry Miller
Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.
- Chuck Palahniuk
A teacher is one who makes himself progresively unnecessary.
- Thomas Carruthers
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
- George Santayana
I could have gone to medical school, I said. Except for all the math and stuff.
- MaryJanice Davidson
The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.
- Ray Bradbury
You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
- Henry Ford
Prison is like high school with knives.
- Raegan Butcher
Everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.
- David Levithan
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
- Mahatma Gandhi