Peter McWilliams Quotes

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.

I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves.

We went to public schools from kindergarten through seventh grade, and it was fun.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

Going to our school is an education in itself which is not to be confused with actually getting an education.

All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the crayons in the box. I remember thinking, 'Why is everyone finding this so easy? Why should the crayons be in the box?'

It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.

Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.

I give the children education.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.

I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.

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

To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.

I do not know of any measures that would prepare the way for a better feeling in Ireland, than uniting children at an early age and bringing them up in the same school, leading them to commune with one another and to form these little intimacies and friendships which often subsist through life.

I did kindergarten twice because I was so shy.

When I started going to school, I started getting used to things, like the language. After that, I started adapting to school, friends, and everything. It was really difficult, to start with, but I survived.

I was a diligent little boy at my primary school and then I went to public school and became mediocre at most things and pretty rubbish at others. I had a really tough time. I didn't enjoy it at all. But it made me the man I am today.

When I was little, seven or eight years old, in third and fourth grade, I would always try to use long words and stuff.

I started high school in L.A., but I went to public school in New York.

Taking a toddler to school is one of the most satisfying moments in my many years in public life. There is no better joy than laying the foundations of a strong future for these little children.... Friends, let us all become partners in this quest for ensuring education for all!

The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.