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I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.
I've felt like an outcast most of my life, being in multiple high schools and being a military child.
I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.
We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools.
I don't like schools. And I mean, you have to call on all your friends to get them into their schools.
I hated Duke, and I hated everything Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn't recruit players like me.
We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.
Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.
I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.
There is a systemic problem in this country, where schools are often forcing parents to turn to Ritalin.
Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.
In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.
My outlook was, 'You're not my moms; you can't tell me what to do.' I got expelled from about 20 schools.
I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.
Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.
The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools.
Any elected official who asks to visit my schools is welcome to do so; there is no political litmus test.
We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.
The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
You cannot help but notice that schools that take music seriously tend to be more academically successful.
Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.
As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.
There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.
Integrated schools help students achieve academic success in the present and personal success in the future.
In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.
I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.
I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.
Administrations and administrative faculty work very hard to see that schools are diverse as much as possible.
The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.
When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.
In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.
Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.
Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.
Without music in schools' curriculum, there is a void for young people to express, explore, and experience music.
The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.
I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.
I think it's really important that the anti-bullying messages get into schools and become a staple in every school.
In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.
When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.
The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind.
The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
Most people understand that Lehman Brothers didn't collapse because Gordon Brown built too many schools and hospitals.