School Time Quotes

We need to lengthen the school day. We need to lengthen the school year. Our calendar is based upon the agrarian economy. Children in India and China are going to school 25, 30, 35 more days a year. They're just working harder than us. So, we need more time, particularly for disadvantaged children, who aren't getting those supports at home.

It's a crazy busy schedule, but I still have two hours a day for school because it's a priority.

One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.

When I'm 18 I don't get any more school time on set, so you only have a limited time to do it. You learn every day, and so I don't think of it as a chore.

Can I request another peer guide, One who isn't so happy to be at school at 7:30 a.m.?

it's back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.

I do think that a school day that matches the work day makes a lot of difference for working families, but the big driver of this effort is education. Period. We have a lot of students not gaining the skills they need, and it is pretty clear that school does not offer enough time to get that job done.

I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.

The average young person today in a country with a strong gamer culture will have spent 10,000 hours playing online games by the age of 21. Now 10,000 hours is a really interesting number for two reasons. First of all, for children in the United States, 10,080 hours is the exact amount of time you will spend in school, from fifth grade to high school graduation, if you have perfect attendance.