Dave Van Ronk Quotes

I didn't go to school a lot.

I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

I never finished high school. In fact, I hated going to school.

I left school early in my last year before I took my A-levels. I wasn't expelled. It was just a mutual understanding. I wasn't interested in going to school and they said, 'You're not turning up,' so we severed ties. Both sides appreciated it.

I skipped school starting in tenth grade. I started doing badly and failed every class but English, so they kicked me out of school. They gave up on me.

THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.

I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.

I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

I walked out of class one day and I never went back.

It disturbs me when Obama says in the State of the Union address that he wants to make dropping out of school at 18 illegal, because people learn differently and before there are forms of learning for every type of person in the world, we shouldn't be condemned for leaving.

I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing down random stories and stuff that would have nothing to do with school. I only lasted two years in high school before I moved out to L.A.

School's not for everyone, but I'm not telling people to leave school.

I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

I did drop out of school.

Parents or guardians who themselves arrange for their children or wards receiving instruction equal to the general elementary school standard, shall not be obliged to have their children or wards taught in elementary school

No country can ever flourish or make its mark as a nation, as long as the principle of (educational) compulsion is absent

Half of Afghanistan’s newly created schools have no actual buildings, many lack teachers, most students never graduate, and one-fifth of the registered students are permanently absent.

I never went to high school. I never really finished eighth grade. I was kicked out of seventh grade once and eighth grade twice. Mainly for not showing up and not doing it. Then I went to an alternative high school for part of what would have been ninth grade and part of what would have been 10th grade.

It's just like anybody else - some people, most people don't wanna go to school. They just don't want to. It's... not fun. I was just somebody who got away with it.

School really didn't work for me.