Quotes of Indoctrinate - somelinesforyou

“ The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. ”

- Tom Bodett

“ It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education. ”

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

“ As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation. ”

- Franz Liszt

“ There are excellent public schools (in Las Vegas) and it is no secret that the public schools in wealthier neighborhoods have newer, better equipment. ”

- Michael Green

“ In Kansas I have a chess school. ”

- Anatoly Karpov

“ But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you. ”

- Nikita Khrushchev

“ I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students. ”

- Jonathan Kozol

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

- Jonathan Kozol

“ A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. ”

- Gertrude Jekyll

“ If law school is so hard to get through… how come there are so many lawyers? ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ We want to get them all into school. ”

- Tom Wilson

“ A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss. ”

- Tina Fey

“ I don't think any of us have lost confidence in Jay. We're expecting... that he's going to be fighting to get his starting position back. That's the kind of guy he is. This makes him more hungry now. ”

- Brian Clark

“ It's nice to have a lot of people in the field. Independent, third party, Libertarian, Reform and other party candidates can do what they want to do. I welcome them to the race. ”

- John Murray

“ At the age of 12 I was going on to another boarding school in another part of the country. We change schools at 13 in this country. ”

- Jeremy Irons

“ No one has the Houdini school of composition. ”

- Morton Feldman

“ What are you doing now?... Just going to school and swimming? ”

- Amanda Beard

“ There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled. ”

- Baltasar Gracian

“ Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge. ”

- Dick Gregory

“ A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination. ”

- David Horowitz

“ Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world. ”

- Sarah Boseley

“ America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live. ”

- Jane Addams

“ The schools ain't what they used to be and never was. ”

- Will Rogers

“ The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. ”

- John Sterling

“ It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family. ”

- Confucius

“ The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. ”

- Jacques Barzun

“ I pay the School Master, but 'tis the school boys that educate my son. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a nagging feeling in its circuits. ”

- Robert Brault

“ What they teach in these acting schools is incredible, hair-raising crap. ”

- Klaus Kinski
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