Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Teens find out a lot from other teens.

I love school, and I love learning, and school really does inspire me for a lot of my writing - just being in public school with people and watching things happen.

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.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

Kids get influenced by other kids.

The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.

Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework.

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

University was a chance to people-watch and to mix with people from all various walks of life, which as an actor is a great experience because you get to observe people.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

Peers often matter more than parents.

We need to sort the kids out and educate them properly. After all, they are our future.

In Bronxville, New York, we went to public school there, before London. Mother had a great belief in public school. She said it was very good for us to meet all the neighborhood kids.

I went to public school in L.A., so I felt like I'd been in a coma for three years. I woke up, and moved to New York.

More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.

Sending our kids in my family to private school was a big, big, big deal. And it was a giant family discussion. But it was a circular conversation, really, because ultimately we don't have a choice. I mean, I pay for a private education and I'm trying to get the one that most matches the public education that I had, but that kind of progressive education no longer exists in the public system. It's unfair.

There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so necessary is this to the understanding the characters of men, that none are more ignorant of them than those learned pedants whose lives have been entirely consumed in colleges and among books; for however exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.