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  • The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.

    Harry K. Wong, Rosemary Tripi Wong, Chelonnda Seroyer (2009). “The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher”, Harry K Wong Publication
  • A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

    George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”
  • If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

    Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown
  • Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

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  • You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

    Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”
  • Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

    Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.44, Princeton University Press
  • The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

    "The Leisure Alternatives Catalog: Food for Mind & Body". Book by Joseph Allen, 1979.
  • Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John tried to see the bright side in having to face such a shrew every morning. "Maybe she done changed," he said hopefully on the first day of school. However, when classes were over he was noticeably quiet. Well?" I asked him. He shrugged dejectedly and admitted, "She still the same.

    Morning   School   Hands  
  • I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

  • You can get all A's and still flunk life.

    "Don't Overdo Graduation Speech". www.altoonamirror.com. May 24, 2015.
  • You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.

    Funny   Sexy   Money  
  • First day of school, make sure that you know your locker combination.

    School   Lockers   Firsts  
    "Catching up with Camp Rock 2's Jordan "JMan" Francis!". Interview with Teen Mag, www.seventeen.com. September 2, 2010.
  • On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.

    Girl   Father   School  
    Interview With Jessica Simmons, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2010.
  • A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

  • Fate often allows a future to take shape with no regard for our expectation, plan, or readiness. Fate's skillful editing of our life choices is like the careful grooming of lads on their first day of school: combed, polished, scrubbed, newly dressed, and glowing too. This is how we become ready for our life lessons.

    David Richo (2007). “The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know”, p.91, Shambhala Publications
  • Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

    Education   Freedom   War  
    "The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer" edited by William B. Fowle, 1852.
  • The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

  • I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.

    School   Lasts   Firsts  
    Jenny Han (2014). “To All the Boys I've Loved Before”, p.62, Scholastic UK
  • Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

  • Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

  • It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.

  • No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why this particular name I have no idea.

    Teacher   School   Names  
  • Even if I turned myself in, it wouldn't change anything. It wouldn't make me one of them. I knew that when I got my powers, but really I knew it before then. I learned it as a child on my first day of school, on the warm rainy streets of Bangkok, and in college. If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to. What do you do when you find out your heart is the wrong kind? You take what you're given, and be the hero you can be. Hero to your own cold, inverted heart.

    Children   Hero   Heart  
  • Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

  • An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.

    "John C. Reilly's carnal insticts". Interview with Craig Hubert, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 16, 2011.
  • I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not because I had any particular aptitude in them, but because normally on the first day of school they'd hand out schoolbooks, and I'd read them--which would mean that I'd know what was coming up, because I'd read it.

    Reading   School   Mean  
  • In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

    Funny   Life   Graduation  
    Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.26, St. Martin's Press
  • I stay dipped like the first day of school.

    Rap   School   Hip Hop  
    Song: MCF, Album: The Pillage
  • I'm still learning. It's all a learning curve. Every time you sit down, with any given episode of any given show, it is a learning curve. You're learning something new about how to tell a story. But then, I've felt that way about everything I've ever done - television, features or whatever. Directing or writing, it always feels like the first day of school to me.

    Source: collider.com
  • Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

    Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.40, Transaction Publishers
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