The least of learning is done in the classrooms.
—Thomas Merton
School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come."
—Dave Kellett
The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.
—Dan Quisenberry
I think the world is run by C students.
—Al McGuire
School was a worry to her. She was not glib or quick in a world where glibness and quickness were easily confused with ability to learn.
—Tillie Olsen
School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
—Ivan Illich
During my second year of nursing school, our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.
—Joann C. Jones
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
—Mark Twain
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
—James Joyce
As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy—they encouraged constant trips to the local drugstore for chocolate milk shakes to fatten me up. The shakes made me happy, but still, all through grammar school, other kids shoved me around.
—James D. Watson
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
—William Ellery Channing