Paul Simon Quotes

Golly, I hated high school.

The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.

Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.

High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.

I loved high school, but I wouldn't want to do it again.

It doesn't make me happy to go back and talk about how great high school was.

The best class I ever took in high school was typing.

I had good time in high school, but I don't think I learned a lot.

The life I remember begins at Imperia, where I went to school, including the Ginnasio-Liceo 'De Amicis.'

High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I'll take with me the rest of my life.

Probably the most important piece of advice that I've ever gotten is to develop your mind. I left school very young and I always regretted it.

I hated school. Hated it.

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.

I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.

Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.

When I was a kid, I thought history was the most boring subject of all. I shouldn't blame my teachers; I should blame me, but I'll blame them.

The problem with education is school.

There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages upon pages…” Uncle Will frowned. “Didn’t they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?” “No. But I can recite ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ while making martinis.” “I weep for the future.” “There’s where the martinis come in.

All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.