Social Studies Quotes:

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Social Power, Social Studies

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

- Tracy Kidder

topic: Writing, Done, Copying, Social Studies, Hardest Thing

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

- Geoffrey Canada

topic: Art, Children, School, Social Studies, Physical Education

I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.

- Connor Jessup

topic: Philosophy, Law, Issues, Social Studies, Arts And Humanities

Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.

- Peter Farb

source: Peter Farb (1968). “Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State”

topic: School, Way, Taught, Social Studies

My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

- Rich Sommer

topic: Class, Study, Social, Social Studies, Eighth Grade

So-called 'higher education' is a veritable magnet for second-raters and actively destructive parasites bent on promoting unsound ideas to the inexperienced and gullible. The concentrate in areas like social studies, literature, and art - where opinion reigns supreme. And I find their opinions almost universally appalling.

- Doug Casey

topic: Art, Ideas, Literature, Social Studies, Literature And Art

In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created.

- Paul Smith

topic: Book, Class, Paper, Social Studies

Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

- Warren Farrell

topic: Art, Children, Teaching, Social Studies

Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making.

- Richard Louv

source: Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.162, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Art, Nature, Math, Social Studies, Test Scores

I have nothing to fear from serious social studies of science, and I hope that my philosophy will help progressive science policies while showing that the most modern views of science are ignorant and regressive, even if they are accompanied by a leftist-sounding rhetoric.

- Mario Bunge

source: Source: deutsche-denker.de

topic: Social Studies

So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the result of Common Core? And it's not. It's not. Common Core does not deal with social studies. It's basically writing and math.

- Megyn Kelly

topic: Teaching, Writing, Kids, Social Studies, Common Core

The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.

- Flannery O'Connor

topic: Teacher, Writing, School, Social Studies, School English

I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone to sit next to. A predator approaches: gray jock buzz cut, whistle around a neck thicker than his head. Probably a social studies teacher, hired to coach a blood sport.

- Laurie Halse Anderson

source: Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.5, Macmillan

topic: Sports, Teacher, Zebras, Social Studies, Aisle

What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.

- John Mayer

topic: Character, Home, Interesting, Social Studies

Any day you had gym class was a weird school day. It started off normal. You had English, Social Studies, Geometry, then suddenly your in Lord of the Flies for 40 minutes. Your hanging from a rope, you have hardly any clothes on, teachers are yelling at you, kids are throwing dodge balls at you and snapping towels - you're trying to survive. And then it's Science,Language, and History. Now that is a weird day.

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: Teacher, School, Kids, Social Studies, Snapping

My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.

- Judy Woodruff

topic: Teaching, School, Years, Social Studies, Younger Sister

We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies-all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history-we all learn them at the movies.

- Jack Nicholson

source: "Riffs on life, in the key of Jack". Interview with Rachel Abramowitz, articles.latimes.com. November 03, 2002.

topic: Kissing, Study, Drink, Social Studies