Quotes and Sayings About School
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The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.
-- Alexander Kotov -
Once upon a time supporters of the Steinitz-Tarrasch school had a very high opinion of a queen-side pawn majority. Modern strategy on the other hand categorically denies that such a majority is an independent factor of any importance.
-- Alexander Kotov -
I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get by. I read German and Spanish. I can read Latin (I did a lot of Latin at school.) I'm afraid I do not speak any African languages, although I can understand a little bit of the Zulu-related languages, but only a tiny bit.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
I was literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all my life. I always, always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of twelve. I followed designer's careers. I knew Giorgio Armani was a window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro was a tailor.
-- Alexander McQueen -
We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war
-- Alexander the Great -
I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.
-- Alexander Wang -
I thought I would attend school and get an assistant position and work my way up but being in NY and seeing the pace of everything, is very inspiring.
-- Alexander Wang -
You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there's not an understanding of differences. But I built up a very strong, thick skin.
-- Alexander Wang -
Dear Dad, When you sent me to school that morning, I thought you loved me. But now I see you for what you are. You called me a monster and a freak. But you’re the one that raised me.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.
-- Alexandra Kotur -
I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.
-- Alexandra Patsavas -
I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.
-- Alexandra Roach -
In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school
-- Alexandra Robbins -
When I talk to people, their concern is, how are you going to create jobs? How are you going to help turn this economy around? How are we going to make sure that when my kids get out of high school or college there will be some job there? Those are the concerns that are on their minds.
-- Alexi Giannoulias -
Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.
-- Alexis Bledel -
Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.
-- Alexis De Veaux -
By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor.
-- Alexis Denisof -
I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend summers on the farm in Maryland. Then I went to boarding school in New Hampshire, to St. Paul's School. From there, I moved to London.
-- Alexis Denisof -
Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.
-- Alexis Herman -
There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.
-- Alfie Allen -
I actually love pressure. I loved playing sport at school in front of a crowd; I love being on stage in front of a big audience. I buzz off that.
-- Alfie Allen -
Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.
-- Alfie Kohn -
Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.
-- Alfie Kohn -
Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.
-- Alfie Kohn -
When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.
-- Alfie Kohn -
When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.
-- Alfie Kohn -
In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one doesn't have to look hard to find students who are starving themselves, cutting themselves, or medicating themselves, as well students who are taking out their frustrations on those who sit lower on the social food chain.
-- Alfie Kohn -
The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies and accepted assumptions, whereas the latter figures out how to change whatever gets in the way of doing right by kids. 'But we've always...', 'But the parents will never...', 'But we can't be the only school in the area to...' - all such protestations are unpersuasive to great educators. If research and common sense argue for doing things differently, then the question isn't whether to change course but how to make it happen.
-- Alfie Kohn -
NYU Film School was the way to learn about film, to be exposed to film, to go to repertory houses, to be exposed to New York and see films. I would go to the library and see one, two or three movies a day.
-- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
