Stephen R. Donaldson Quotes

That's why school was invented - to give your parents some peace and quiet during the day.

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

Curiosity is missing. Curiosity in particular is something that the system, not only the educational system but, the parental... what you do as a parent at home.

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

The problem with education is school.

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.

I hated school. Hated it.

The state of our educational system is a disgrace to our country. We have an elementary and secondary school system in which close to half of the youngsters never graduate properly. It's a disgrace that there is more illiteracy today than there was 100 years ago.

I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.

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

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

[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.

Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.

The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].

Education is suffering from narration sickness.

School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

The teachers don't know anything. What are the kids going to learn with a horrible education system?

It's hard for parents just to measure schools.

Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.

Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.