Out Serving Schools Quotes & Sayings

Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time. — David Warlick

We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families constitute the number one burden, the number one burden in this Nation on the school systems. — Lyndon B. Johnson

It's been a struggling school for many, many years, and [that's] not surprising since it's serving some of the most disadvantaged kids in the city. It wasn't the only one by any means, but it was among those. It shows that things like good, steady, stable leadership makes a huge difference; focusing on the culture of the schools as a place where kids feel supported and want to be; supporting the teachers, so they want to stay and work hard. — Pedro Noguera

to reach the kind of success you want you, must know and understand that 'Success is a state of Mind', as long as you never stop thinking, you can achieve whatever, — R.L. Welch

For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in America, and advocated a national data base for all mentally ill persons. They apparently want armed guards in all American schools, and it seems, armed volunteers as well. Shocking. — Anne Rice

That's how you win - pitching and defense. — Derek Jeter

Schools serving disadvantaged students need more time to help these students catch up and gain the core academic skills they will need to succeed in our economy and society. — Chris Gabrieli

Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills. — Libba Bray

Unlike in Europe, where serving is often a career rather than a backup plan, American table-waiting remains a bootstrap business, and some of the biggest skeptics of waiter training courses and schools are seasoned servers themselves. — David Sax

Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking ... asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking. — Edward De Bono

As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them. — Valerie Jarrett

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature. — Ivan Turgenev

Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions. — Thomas Jefferson

The idea to use backpacks came from my visit to Sichuan after the earthquake in May 2008. During the earthquake many schools collapsed. Thousands of young students lost their lives, and you could see bags and study material everywhere. Then you realize individual life, media, and the lives of the students are serving very different purposes. The lives of the students disappeared within the state propaganda, and very soon everybody will forget everything. — Ai Weiwei

When we are sad ... it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change. — Donna Tartt

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children. — Margaret Spellings