John Updike Quotes

There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.

My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit.

I didn't love school.

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

I went to public school up until junior high.

Homeschooling has given us some wonderful flexibility and some great life experiences, especially with our son.

I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

The teachers who taught me at Dreghorn Primary and Greenwood Academy were fantastic.

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

Colleges sort as much as they teach.

I don’t know any parent who wants to send his children to a below average school.

I don’t believe curriculums are the key to education, I believe teachers are.

Parents have got to become more involved in their children’s education.

Education proceeds ultimately from the patterns furnished by institutions, customs, and laws.

The fundamental purpose of schools is to grow adults.

One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to train people will develop the intelligence of those who have it and end the stupidity of those who do not, providing a specialty to those who have narrow talent and broad knowledge to those with all-around ability.

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

I've never been to school.

I believe you cannot survive in this global economy without some form of postsecondary education.

I don't want anybody to be confused that the issue of police and community is one part of a broader set of issues. Our children need to be properly educated. They need to be trained so that they can get jobs and be functional.

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

For me, high school was the one place where I knew my friends were gonna be, so I was there. I didn't like it, I wasn't involved in things, and they didn't teach me anything that I needed to know. But my mom said I had to go, and so I went.