41 School Quotes - Inspirational Words of Wisdom

41 School Quotes

Find school quotes to encourage and motivate. Words of wisdom on our educational systems and on the school of life.

  1. Our kids tell us in every way .... And, they want to actively participate in learning experiences fueled by their questions, curiosities, and interests in and out of school. Ira Socol, Timeless Learning

  2. Our children cannot be ready to walk into the future premade for them. They have to create this future. Whether they can make their future (and our retirement) peaceful and prosperous depends on what we do in schools today. Yong Zhao

  3. Small schools do appear to be more effective than larger schools. Dylan Wiliam, Creating the Schools Our Children Need
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  4. If schools aren't allowed to give your child what they need then it will be open minded warrior mums and dads that will provide it instead. Wynford Dore, Stop Struggling In School
    Open Minded

  5. Learning is acquiring new skills and understanding. Education is an organized program of learning. School is a community of learners. Ken Robinson, You, Your Child, and School

  6. Put simply, highly structured schooling systems push kids through arbitrary processes that make no sense. The assignments and projects and tests often don't apply to their lives. Connor Boyack, Passion-Driven Education

  7. The second biggest influence in your son's life after his family is school. We trust schools to teach our kids what they need to know to grow up to be solid, productive adults. Clayton Lessor, Saving Our Sons link to son

  8. The starting point for a successful, positive, and safe environment is the establishment of a school climate that emphasizes kindness, gentleness, responsibility, and self-restraint. James L. Casale, Wise Up and Be the Solution

  9. The learning that starts in school and used to end at graduation is now a vital and continual proactive process. Victor Hayek, Outclass
    High School Graduation Quotes

  10. Learning is not something that stops once you get out of school. Rupert Johnson
  11. Learning is not something that stops once you get out of school. Rather, it's something that should be considered as a vital component of your day-to-day life. Rupert Johnson, Build for Success
    College Graduation Quotes

  12. Remember, when it come to applying for jobs, books ARE judged by their cover! Patricia Akins, Things They Don't Teach You In High School
    Funny Graduation Quotes

  13. If someone were to analyze every single decision a teacher needs to make during a full school year, many of the most important ones would relate to how students will spend their instructional time - the time devoted to learning what they're supposed to learn. W. James Popham, Instruction That Measures Up

  14. The first of many graduations in life. From elementary school to senior school, each one holds successes for you to enjoy. Catherine Pulsifer

  15. Planting the seeds of compassion and respect in classrooms and schools is essential, not only to reduce bullying and other cruel behaviors, but because empathy and kindness are so essential to all human relationships. Naomi Drew; Christa Tinari, Create a Culture of Kindness in Middle School

  16. Over the years I've come to realize that mistakes are just lessons, life lessons almost like school. Once you've learned a lesson in class, you move on to the next lesson because now you know it. Well mistakes are exactly the same. Rashard Royster, Mistakes
    Life Lessons

  17. Having worked with children and youth for over 10 years, I can tell you firsthand that school is not what it used to be, and neither is childhood. A. C. Jones, The Mindful Parenting Handbook Children

  18. The amazing thing about the school of experience is this: One, if you fail the test, it's OK. You get to take it over - and over and over and over until you pass it. Second, just about the time you think you've graduated, they add another course. You will be in that school the rest of your life. Rick Warren


  20. Maybe you decided that you needed to go back to school to obtain your high school diploma, or to go on to college, or to attain a higher degree from university, or to take additional courses to help you move forward in your career. Byron Pulsifer, Inspirational Torpedoes
    Moving Forward

  21. One of the most important jobs educators have is to teach, model, and reinforce respect, compassion, kindness, and other prosocial skills. Doing so builds a school climate and culture where kids feel more connected to their teachers and to one another. Naomi Drew; Christa Tinari, Create a Culture of Kindness in Middle School

  22. . . . formal education gets you a job, but self-education is what makes you rich! The importance of self-education and investing in your own personal development is something that you won't learn about in high school or even college. Jim Rohn, My Philosophy for Successful Living
    Personal Development

  23. Marriage is like a school. It is a life-long span education. Author Unknown



  26. I think school is a place where thinking should be taught. Edward de Bono
  27. I think school is a place where thinking should be taught. Edward de Bono

  28. In school, children learn that there is only one answer for each question and are requested to conform to conventional social wisdoms The difference between geniuses and most of us is that they managed to not lose their childhood creativity. Andrii Sedniev, The Business Idea Factory

  29. Given how quickly our increasingly diverse world is changing, there are few more urgent challenges than engaging leaders in effective communication strategies that build functional relationships that transform schools and education systems. Sherida Britt

  30. A child learns to love (or hate) school in kindergarten and first grade. During that time he forms attitudes about his own value as a person and his worth as a learner. Those attitudes will accompany him all the way through school and into adulthood. Jacquie McTaggart

  31. You can't motivate all students with the same encouragement, because students don't all have achievement goals. Successful motivation needs to be targeted to their goals. Fiona McPherson, How to Approach Learning
    Words of Encouragement

  32. With death happening in the school and college arena these days, more and more kids are exposed to grief than is usual. Thus, letting children talk and listening to what they have to say is very important in this day and age. Michael Dunsmore, Grief

  33. Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. Mark Twain
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  34. In our society, we are not trained how to handle money. We went to school to learn geometry, the parts of a sentence, the distance from the earth to the moon and how to conjugate a verb. Why were we never taught how to manage money? Lenore Schur, How to Manage Money Without A Budget


  36. The best lesson anyone can learn from business school is an awareness of what it can't teach you - all the ins and outs of everyday business life. Mark H. McCormack, What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School


  38. Just as a student in school needs to listen and apply wisdom to what he or she has learned in order to excel both in the school and in their career; you have to apply the truth of God's Words to your life and situation to achieve success. Jimi Akanbi, The Power of Grace, Favor and Honor

  39. So if you are in high school no matter freshman, or junior or whatever, try to focus on your learnings and grades. You will have all your life to search for the right person on like they call it soul mate. E Stoyanova

  40. Those who get lost on the way to school will never find their way through life. German Proverb

  42. We are responsible for the habits we teach our children. If children attend school with an attitude of self-responsibility, they answer to their own consciences rather than wait for parents or teachers to punish or remind them to study. Rose Marie Whiteside, As For Me And My House

  43. Sometimes the knowledge you've been given in school or by an elder - "this is just the way it is" - keeps you from accomplishing because it traps you in a box in your mind and limits your freedom to deliver." Yanni


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