Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Just as we have had great working lives, we have also had good personal lives. For instance, we have made school our number one priority. We have been in school our entire lives with kids our own age. We guess that's pretty regular.

I spend time in the classroom. I think more of them aren't political science than are political science. I particularly like talking to journalism students.

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

I was never very happy at school.

I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my acting class on Saturday.

I went to a regular school... education kept me sane.

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm, and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

Colleges sort as much as they teach.

We all know—not just from common wisdom but from hard research—that all children benefit from being in smaller classes.

Education is, in the end, about individual interactions and about learning.

For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.

I went back to school for the end of eighth grade and for all of high school, which was awesome.

School, for me, was not a place where you went to be educated, but a place where you got away from your parents for a couple of hours while they got some respite from you, and where you were able to see your mates.

I don't believe most kids enjoy school at all, and that's a shameful waste, considering how curious and excited kids are to learn. They're naturally curious, full of wonder.

I didn't like my first primary school in Leicester very much. As I was going home on my tricycle one day, I said, 'There's no reading, no writing and no arithmetic - it's really boring!' So I was sent to St John the Baptist Church of England Primary.

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

For me, I could not wait to get out of school, but at the same time, you miss the people.

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 don't miss public school.

I'm half-and-half on school. I had fun in grade school, but when I went to college, it was the worst place I've ever been in my entire life.

Create sacred spaces in the workplace as well. Classrooms, five years ago, professors would say, I don't want be a nanny to my students. They can do whatever they want. Now professors are saying, put away that laptop, because studies show that it not only takes away the attention of the person who's on the laptop from the class, but everyone around them. There's like a circle around that person that's distracted and not paying attention.