Eric Bana Quotes

I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.

There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.

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.

Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I have been assigned low tribal status". And so, of course, they plot rebellion - accuse the existing tribal overlords of corruption plot, perhaps to split off their own little tribe in the savanna, not realizing that this is impossible in the Modern World.

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology.

I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new school was taking up Silas Marner, with the result that it was the only book in the English language that I knew until I was eighteen--but, boy, did I know Silas Marner!

I very much support financial education in schools.

The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing.

When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.

Even civics classes have almost disappeared from the schools. So things have not gotten any better.

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

When I first got into the first-year study after the Cultural Revolution, got into the same school with this group, I wasn't conscious of the so-called "Fifth Generation." I didn't like that kind of study condition because there's no real, true education there.

The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].

I'm not from around these parts. I'm from a little place called England: we used to run the world before you.

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother.

I don't know how to be happy - They didn't teach it in my school

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression.