School Hours Quotes:

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

- Thomas Carlyle

source: Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)”, p.210

topic: Education, School, Night, School Hours

Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

- Roger Moore

topic: Education, Children, School, Formal Education, Unicef

I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.

- Cassandra Clare

source: "Author Interview: Cassandra Clare on City of Bones (Book One, The Mortal Instruments)". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. March 8, 2008.

topic: Teacher, Book, Reading, School Hours

Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30 to 3.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers.

- Chris Brasher

topic: School, Office, Shapes, School Hours

Work outside of school hours was a necessity at an early age, and with such time as I had I turned toward interests of my own devising, making things, experimenting, and planning for the future. I had read of Thomas Alva Edison and other successful inventors, and the idea of making an invention appealed to me as one of the few available means to accomplish a change in one's economic status, while at the same time bringing to focus my interest in technical things and making it possible to make a contribution to society as well.

- Chester Carlson

topic: School, Mean, Successful, Contribution To Society, Devising

The disciples were not losing time when they sat beside their Master, and held quiet converse with Him under the olives of Bethany or by the shores of Galilee. Those were their school-hours; those were their feeding times.

- Theodore L. Cuyler

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 376, 1895.

topic: School, Olives, Losing, Converses, Losing Time

I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours.

- Essence Atkins

source: "Essence Atkins - The 'Are We There Yet?' Interview with Kam Williams". aalbc.com.

topic: Children, School, Ballet, Modern Dance, School Hours

There are other ways to motivate students than requiring them to take on debt or work long hours taking away from their studies. For example, we don't allow our kids to work during the school hours their freshman year. After that, they can work a little but not so much that it hurts their education.

- Michelle Singletary

source: Source: live.washingtonpost.com

topic: Hurt, School, Kids, Motivate Students, Long Hours