Fran Lebowitz Quotes

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

They [teachers] beat it right out of me. Or they beat it into me and educated it out of me. I don't know; that's an interesting question. The Catholic schools required work, so I think that may have been where the work ethic came from, in answer to the question of how my character may have been shaped.

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints.

We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was going on, and the pupils received only so much light as could penetrate the shadow of the Catholic church.

The problem with education is school.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

I give the children education.

At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history.

We are confident that an Irish government established by the people for the people, while safeguarding the material interests of the new state, will always recognize and respect the principles which must regulate and govern Catholic education. In view of the impending changes in Irish education we wish to assert the great fundamental principle that the only satisfactory system of education for Catholics is one wherein Catholic children are taught in Catholic schools by Catholic teachers under Catholic Control.

Let us thank all those who teach in Catholic schools. Educating is an act of love; it is like giving life.

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.

Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.

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

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

We are taught words, not ideas.

[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.

Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

I was educated by nuns. None of them, of course, did anything resembling the actions of Lydia from The Handmaid's Tale, but they taught me a work ethic, that I had to toe the line, that I had to step up and do my work, and that we would stay until it was done, and that came from a devotion to making you the best person you can be. That's the take I have on Lydia. She knows her actions are firm and sometimes very harsh, but she also looks after them.

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

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

You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.