Life After School Quotes

Ever since I left the Brit school I've been so protected. I had a woman to do my hair and makeup every day throughout my 20s.

Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.

I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing.

It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars, have a horrendous performance record in later life.

I think things get a lot better after high school. I think the ones that struggle during that time tend to have better experiences after.

We don’t really care about test scores. We care about adult outcomes.

It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

I was quite advanced when I was at school, and when I left school it seemed that all these really oafish clods from school were making tremendous progress and had wonderfully large cars and lots of money, and I seemed to be constantly waiting for a bus that never came.