“In school, students cheat because the system values high grades more than students value learning.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“In school, curiosity is hardly ever taught or nurtured, breeding legions of students who’ve lost all love of learning.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between school and prison is the wardrobe.”— Rachel Lipman, Quinn Morgendorffer, Wendy Hoopes, imdb.com
“At first I was quite happy going to school. Most of the kids who lived on the Green next to us started at the same time, but as the months went by, and it dawned on me that this was it for the long haul, I began to panic. The feelings of insecurity I had about my home life made me hate school. All I…”— Eric Clapton, amazon.com
“Dream big, they say. Shoot for the stars. Then they lock us away for 12 years and tell us where to sit, when to pee and what to think. Then we turn 18 and even though we've never had an original thought, we have to make the most important decision of our lives.”— Nic Sheff, Hannah Baker, Katherine Langford, imdb.com
“There is no shoe school, so where do you recruit people for a company that develops and markets running shoes? The running track… We and the consumer were one and the same.”— Phil Knight, addicted2success.com
“Me: How was your last day of school before break? 5-year-old: We didn't even learn!”— James Breakwell, twitter.com
“Sometimes in life, both at school and afterwards, fortune will go against anyone, but if he just keeps pegging away and don’t lose his courage things always take a turn for the better in the end.”— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org
“Don't you love it when people in school are like, "I'm a bad test taker?" You mean, you're stupid. Oh, you struggle with that part where we find out what you know? Oh. No, no, I can totally relate. See, because I'm a brilliant painter, minus my God-awful brushstrokes. Oh, how the masterpiece is crys…”— Daniel Tosh, en.wikiquote.org
“I ran the astronaut school for six years, and I was the commandant and when I finished in '65, 26 of my guys went into space as NASA astronauts that I trained.”— Chuck Yeager, inspiringquotes.us
“Me: What did you learn at school today? 5-year-old: Boring stuff I didn’t want to know. Me: Maybe you'll learn something fun tomorrow. 5: I already learned all the good stuff.”— James Breakwell, twitter.com
“5-year-old: I don't want to go to school anymore. Me: You have to. It's your job. 5: Then why don't I get paid?”— James Breakwell, twitter.com
“School should feel like prison. School should make you wanna bust out and do something different with your life.”— Tom Kapinos, Floyd Mooney, Jay Pharoah, imdb.com
“Every year, hundreds of kids are shipped off to mime school... ...never to be heard from again.”— madazzahatter, reddit.com
“We started them to school. They learned to read. They learned to work simple arithmetic problems. Now some of our plantation owners can't figure the poor devils out of everything at the close of each year.”— Huey Long, en.wikiquote.org
“I was never sent to school...it would have rubbed off some of the originality (if I had not died of shyness or been killed with over pressure).”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com