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Don't let schooling interfere with your education. -- Mark Twain
While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. -- Ray Kroc
A human life is a schooling for eternity. -- Gottfried Keller
My education was interrupted only by my schooling. -- Winston Churchill
When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling. -- John Taylor Gatto
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. -- Albert Einstein
I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling. -- Rob Corddry
Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control. -- Hugh Jackman
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The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot that fits nobody. -- John Taylor Gatto
Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents. -- John Taylor Gatto
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. -- Herbert Hoover
If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands of the 21st century, it will simply become irrelevant. -- David Hood
Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the structures of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another. -- John Taylor Gatto
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself. -- George Bernard Shaw
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them. -- Ivan Illich
Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured. -- David Hood
Schooling should not be left to the whim or wealth of village elders. I believe that we should fund all schools in the U.S. with our national resources. All these kids are being educated to be Americans, not citizens of Minneapolis or San Francisco. -- Jonathan Kozol
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real. -- John Taylor Gatto
There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public funds must not be used for such purposes. The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions -- Ludwig von Mises
The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I think that transition is what helped me bridge the gap, because that's what my success has really been about: bridging the gap between the black community and the white community. -- Will Smith
We do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our business or schooling, while keeping parts to ourselves. The idea is to live all of our lives in the presence of God, under the authority of God, and for the honor and glory of God. That is what the Christian life is all about. -- R. C. Sproul
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years. Is this deadly routine really necessary? And if so, for what? Don't hide behind reading, writing, and arithmetic as a rationale, because 2 million happy homeschoolers have surely put that banal justification to rest. -- John Taylor Gatto
Schooling is so important. -- Haile Gebrselassie
Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education. -- Russell Kirk
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Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise. -- Patrick Ness
Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps. -- James Heckman
Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment a child is born-some say before-until it dies. -- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
To confuse compulsory schooling with equal educational opportunity is like confusing organized religion with spirituality. One does not necessarily lead to the other. Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. -- Wendy Priesnitz
I never let schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain
I actually just started home schooling. And it is great. -- Robert Iler
All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life. -- Juliette Lewis
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work. -- Nat King Cole
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. -- William Glasser
At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living. -- Neil Postman
If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years. -- Janet Napolitano
No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area. -- Daymond John
I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think. -- Lady Gaga
It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling. -- Michael Gove
To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while. -- Joshua Slocum
All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times. -- John Woolman
Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom. -- Ernest Istook
The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally. -- Steve Forbes
So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school. -- Thomas Keneally
Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else. -- Alex Tabarrok
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. -- Jacques Barzun
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20? -- Arthur C. Clarke
Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep. -- Michael Jackson
Maybe it was the home tutoring, or the late start to formal schooling, or an overly cautious and protective upbringing, but in any case, I never became a talkative person. As an adult, I am not always comfortable in social gatherings with small talk. I must have inherited my father's gentle nature. -- Charles K. Kao
My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet. -- Nandan Nilekani
If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins. -- Wendell Berry
A human life is a schooling for eternity -- Gottfried Keller
Systems of schooling are over managed and under led. -- Thomas J. Sergiovanni
Not all schooling is education nor all education, schooling. -- Milton Friedman
I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club. -- Lena Horne
Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling. -- Ted Sizer
I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education -- Mark Twain
Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic. -- Neil Postman
Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling. -- Mark Twain
I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling. -- Rick Springfield
I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling. -- Clint Eastwood
Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry. -- Dick Cavett
School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged. -- John Taylor Gatto
In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years. -- Jonathan Kozol
I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education. -- Mark Twain
In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics. -- James Rainwater
It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling. -- Murray Rothbard
It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling. -- Murray Rothbard
This life is just your schooling for what you have to do when you graduate. -- David Berg
Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends. -- Daoud Hari
Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling. -- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling. -- Philip Emeagwali
Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling. -- Andy Hargreaves
It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling. -- Robert Frost
I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract. -- Hermione Gingold
I'll continue to fight for school choice and home schooling. Do I believe in accountability? You bet I do. -- Charlie Crist
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What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education! -- Grant Allen
It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actually quite conservative. -- Michael Leunig
You must pray...without prayer, all the schooling in the world will not produce the effect God wants homeschooling to give. -- John Hardon
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education. -- Ringo Starr
Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online. -- Felicia Day
I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have. -- Randy Travis
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid -- Bob Dylan
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business. -- Stephen Ambrose
My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt. -- George Bernard Shaw
The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice. -- Thomas Carlyle
My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems. -- Akio Morita
It's great to be with you gun-toting, 10ther, pro-life, Austrian-economics, home-schooling, redoubt-living, Constitutionalist patriots this evening. I think that covers the SPLC's list. -- Matt Shea
What we tell students in formal schooling: â??Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well. -- Alex Tabarrok
To live the practical aspect of life as part of our schooling is formidable, but to adopt living it as our ultimate goal is absurd. -- Samael Aun Weor
Doctors and nurses seemed to have been born and raised in the hospital, with only short punctuations of absenteeism for such things as schooling and marriage. -- Marjorie Kellogg
I mean to suggest that without a transcendent and honorable purpose, schooling must reach its finish, and the sooner we are done with it, the better. -- Neil Postman
The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves. -- Louis Leakey
The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose. -- Herbert Croly
From now on, we're home schooling you. Whatever we don't know, you don't know. When did the Korean War start? I don't know, and neither do you! -- George Lopez
If we reduced the amount we spend on maintaining our nuclear weapons by a small fraction, we could reallocate those funds to improve kids' health care and schooling. -- Ben Cohen
In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling. -- Peter Diamandis
By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to be decided by those I political power. -- Jacob G. Hornberger
Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does. -- Geoff Mulgan
I think of myself as an Indian comedian, but I've had British and American schooling. I always had this feeling of not fitting in anywhere, of observing situations from the outside. -- Vir Das
Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way in a forest, requires some schooling. -- Walter Benjamin
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The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists. -- Sugata Mitra
Our young people will learn more about the cult of militarism in this short and accurate book by Joel Andreas than they might learn in their first twelve years of schooling. -- Blase Bonpane
A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student. -- Richard Rodriguez
The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system. -- Milton Friedman
For more than 220 years - from the 1620s to the 1840s - most American schooling was independent of government control, subsidy, and influence. From this educational freedom the American Republic was born. -- Marshall Fritz
In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children. -- Ahmed Zewail
Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them -- G. Stanley Hall
I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else. -- Lexa Doig
Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population. -- Hans Rosling
That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year." -- Peter Jurasik
I really wanted to help people, in fact I started schooling to become a firefighter, but as a firefighter in my area you have to be an Emergency medical technician as well. -- Cameron West

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