#schools

It's such a stress always trying to get bigger houses and larger cars and better schools. Of course, parents want to give their children the best opportunities in life, but sometimes that can stifle them. ↗

— Shirley Henderson

#best #better #bigger #cars #children

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#awful #basically #college #come #equal

Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#nationally #overwhelmingly #per #pupil #receive

I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system. ↗

— John Hume

#grammar #grammar school #i #independent #local

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools. ↗

— John Engler

#could #detroit #failing #i #i wish

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. ↗

— June Jordan

#brother #brother and sister #choke #down #habits

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. ↗

— James Joyce

#cannot #irresponsibility #part #pleasure #recognize

I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city. ↗

— Bob Filner

#board #children #city #diego #elementary

I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event. ↗

— Anatoly Karpov

#am #chess #children #competed #event

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#charge #comes #definitely #education #get