#school

"Don’t you think most of those kids think too much about who got an A or a B when they were in law school and what that means to an inflated G.P.A. and not enough about the world?” asked Connor irrelevantly."

"She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it."

"CONJUGATE THIS:I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish because I did not go to Spanish today. Gracias a dios. Hasta luego."

"Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite."

"I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information."

"In high school I used to write my love notes backwards, so she'd have to flip the paper upside-down to read it. Either that or read it in a mirror, so she can see herself as I see her, and see why I admire her."

"I want to open up a School of Cannibalism. It’ll be a feeder school for top law schools."

"I want to kidnap kids and force them to take useless tests all day long. Wait, that’s what our public education system already does."

"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."

"What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship."

"Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)"

"I once tried to light a joint with a fire ant, but what did I know? I was high on glue and in the third grade, just like grandpa."

"I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school."

"Don't forget to give Neville our love!' Ginny told James as she hugged him.'Mum! I can't give a professor love!''But you know Neville-'James rolled his eyes.'Outside, yeah, but at school he's Professor Longbottom, isn't he? I can't walk into Herbology and give him love...."

"Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy."

"People wishes their friends to be in politics, but their sons in professions."

"Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple."

"I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her."

"Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank."

"My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.Am I a troubled kid?Yeah. You could say that."