Alison Lurie Quotes

What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

I went to public school, and it shaped me as a musician.

It was hard for me, being in school. And nobody was there to tell me how important it was.

What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.

There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.

I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

I didn't fancy any of my teachers.

I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

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.

I hated school. Hated it.

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.

Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.

The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things - and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.

I've opened up my school in California in a beautiful facility on Ventura Boulevard. I'm always in heaven when I'm doing my classes.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

I forgot how much I loved going to class, actually. But I also forgot what having school homework feels like: stressful!

Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.

Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.

I learned a lot of good things in my school. I've audited a lot of other schools, and I guess after a while I got a little tired of the acting school atmosphere.

We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic.

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

I'm just going to go to schools and give inspirational speeches about our bodies. I'll just wear flowing dresses and talk way quieter than I can.

Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Our schools are filled with this potential energy, and we need to create an environment for that energy to manifest itself.