Best School Quotes:

Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.

- Joseph Nye

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: School, Democracy, Best School

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation, Inspirational Learning, Inspiring Education

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Education, Learning, Unschooling, Inspirational Educational

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Graduation, Education, Time, Unschooling, Grad

Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.

- Diane Ackerman

topic: Love, School, Tuition, Best School

The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves.

- Sugata Mitra

topic: Teacher, Children, School, Best School, Schoolwork

I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under the best teachers, learning the best things, in the best possible manner. O death! We thank thee for the light that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance.

- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

topic: Love, Teacher, Children, Best School

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

- Gilbert Highet

source: GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

topic: Hate, School, Boys, Best School

Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is.

- John Engler

topic: Educational, School, Needs, Best School, Charter Schools

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

- Michael Bloomberg

topic: School, World, Wells, Best School

White folks are the luckiest people: Finally a black president and he's a behaved one. Went to the best schools, best colleges, never raises his voice. I ran for president in 1968. I tell (audiences) if I won, I would have dug up the Rose Garden and planted watermelon!

- Dick Gregory

source: Source: www.chicagotribune.com

topic: School, College, Garden, Best School, Rose Garden

The Bible is the best of books, and I wish it were in the hands of every one. It is indispensable to the safety and permanence of our institutions. A free government can not exist without religion and morals, and there cannot be morals without religion. Especially should the Bible be placed in the hands of the young. It is the best school book in the world. I would that all our people were brought up under the influence of that holy book.

- Zachary Taylor

topic: Education, Book, School, Best School, Permanence

African American children are significantly more likely to be obese than are white children. Nearly half of African American children will develop diabetes at some point in their lives. People, that's half of our children. ...We can build our kids the best schools on earth, but if they don't have the basic nutrition they need to concentrate, they're still going to have a challenge learning.

- Michelle Obama

source: "Michelle Obama Dons Dots At NAACP Convention", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2010.

topic: Children, Kids, School, Obese, Best School

Kids should go to college, but they should go to the best school they can afford to get through with minimal or no debt. That might mean going to a community college or an inexpensive local state school. Whatever it takes.

- Mark Cuban

source: Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

topic: Mean, Kids, School, Best School, Community College

Holland I think is the best school to learn football. I think its a great league for that because it's not the strongest league in Europe.

- Rafael van der Vaart

topic: Football, School, Thinking, Best School

President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to some of the best schools in this country - schools that train you how to run the political paradigm, not challenge it. The leaders of the Black Power Movement were challenging that paradigm.

- Danny Glover

source: Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. February 8, 2012.

topic: Running, Country, School, Best School, Black Power

I always maintain that playing in an orchestra intelligently is the best school for democracy. If you play a solo, the conductor and everybody in the orchestra follows you. Then, a few bars later, the main voice goes to another instrument, another group, and then you have to go back into the collective [sound]. The art of playing in an orchestra is being able to express yourself to the maximum but always in relation to something else that is going on.

- Daniel Barenboim

topic: Art, School, Play, Best School

Growing up knowing that I wanted to be a sportscaster and knowing that the best school in the country was right in my back yard, I certainly knew all there was to know about Marty Glickman and about people like Bob Costas and Marv Albert and all of the other greats that have passed through there.

- Beth Mowins

topic: Country, Growing Up, School, Marty, Best School

I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's the reason I started to write music for films. I never studied. There are film and music school that teach you how to write music. I never studied that. But the influence of opera, which is a combination of storyline, visuals, staging, plus music... that was perhaps the best school I could have had. That's what gave me the idea of coming to Hollywood to write music for films.

- Lalo Schifrin

topic: School, Writing, Thinking, Storyline, Staging

Virtually all families in the middle of the earnings distribution aspire to send their children to a school of at least average quality. (We'd think ill of any parent whose aspirations were lower.) The rub is that the best schools tend to be located in more expensive neighborhoods.

- Bob Frank

topic: Children, School, Thinking, Best School

Mastery is not a function of I.Q. or natural talent or wealthy parents who can send you to the best school, but rather the result of going through a learning process, fueled by the desire to grow and the persistence to push past any obstacles.

- Robert Greene

topic: School, Persistence, Past, Best School

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

- Pietro Metastasio

topic: School, Wind, Way, Best School

How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages.

- Russell Baker

topic: Education, Children, School, Best School

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

- Samuel Smiles

source: Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

topic: Home, School, Discipline, Best School, Domesticity

Bombay is far ahead of Bengal in the matter of female education. I have visited some of the best schools in Bengal and Bombay, and I can say from my own experience that there are a larger number of girls receiving public education in Bombay than in Bengal; but while Bengal has not come up to Bombay as far as regarded extent of education, Bengal is not behind Bombay in the matter of solidarity and depth.

- Keshub Chandra Sen

source: Speech delivered at the East India Association, London, May 13, 1870.

topic: Girl, School, Numbers, Best School, Bombay

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

- Wilford Brimley

topic: School, Men, Thinking, Best School

When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.

- Jeffrey Kluger

topic: Children, Sibling, School, Best School, Best Food

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

- Ben Stein

topic: Believe, School, Successful, Best School

Where's the course called How to Lead a Life of Crime? That's what this is about, isn't it? You've got everyone thinking this is the best school in the country, but it's really just a Hogwarts for hustlers.

- Kirsten Miller

topic: Country, School, Thinking, Best School

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

- Rosa Luxemburg

topic: Teacher, School, History, Best School, Proletariat