Angus Deaton Quotes

Competition among schools is always a great motivator.

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.

My school, we affectionately nicknamed it Avonjail, but it was called Avondale, Avondale high school in Stockport. I left with no GCSEs above a D.

I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way.

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

There were certainly no spells at my school. More like a smack in the mouth.

There is no less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

I probably wish I'd worked harder in school. I loved school but it was more a social thing for me. I did well in school but I could have done better.

Never was I allowed to miss school.

I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. I gained from the discipline there.

Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.

Pine View was a great school for me - it made it safe to be a nerd. It was okay to really care about doing your homework and doing well in school.

I had tutors, but education was just not a priority.

I'm a proud product of the Massachusetts public schools.

I say that a university is a house of knowledge, not for showing off Dolce & Gabbana bags. Students should go to university in uniform.

My mum and dad pushed me to work hard in my earlier years in education.

I got suspended from school once, and my dad came to the school and whooped me in front of everyone. I didn't want that to happen again, didn't want to be embarrassed like that. The guys that I ran with, they respected that and respected my dad too.

What we want is more learning in schools and less activism in schools.

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.

Every school is different and serves different populations.

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.

When I was at school, I got into trouble quite often.

All my siblings went to college, and my parents stressed getting school work done first before we could play.

I enjoyed every moment of being at school. Football doesn't last for ever, so you need an education longer term.