Quotes of: Private-schools Keyword

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

John Backus

When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there.

Abbi Jacobson

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

Benedict Cumberbatch

it's back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.

Stephen Colbert

It wasn't school that I dreaded at all. School was not half bad. In many ways, this year had been downright fun. No, what I hated most about school was the fact that I had to come here all by myself. Simon and Peter went to their classes and did thei...

Chickens in the Headlights

The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of public does it create? A conglomerate of self-indulgent consumers? Angry, soulless, directionless masses? Indifferent, confused citizens? Or a public...

The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School

Both of these students- both high school seniors both old enough to vote in the upcoming election- thought 'Al' Qaeda was a person. At that time the United States had been at war for five and a half years and here were two students two young adults l...

Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

It starts innocently. Casually. You turn up at the annual spring fair full of beans, help with the raffle tickets (because the pretty red-haired music teacher asks you to) and win a bottle of whiskey (all school raffles are fixed), and, before you kn...

White Teeth

No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Couples

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

James Broughton

Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.

John Sergeant Wise

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

Richard Dawkins

I'm fairly in tune with what's private with my husband and with me.

Star Jones

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

Suze Orman

I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know.

Shania Twain

I never sought to privatize Social Security.

Saxby Chambliss

I got my private pilot's license in autumn 1986.

Mathias Rust

no life of faith can be lived privately. There must be an overflow into the lives of others.

C.K. Chesterton

No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

Barton Gellman

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Michel de Montaigne

I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.

Bob McDonnell