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High Schools Quotes

These high schools quotes cover teaching teenagers, the surprising sameness of American high schools, blunt teenage honesty, and friendships forged despite moving schools.

High school shapes friendships, honesty, and ambition in ways people carry for life, and these quotes reflect on Education both inside and outside the classroom.

The discovery I made was that, really, in America, if you went to high school in our country, it doesn't really matter where you went to high school. In a funny way, all high schools are the same.

Quotes by Winnie Holzman

Between acting jobs, I'd go visit my hometown and college town to see family and friends. But I would also teach acting, dance, singing, and audition techniques in high schools and colleges. I take great pride in all the survival...

Quotes by Vincent Rodriguez III

I changed high schools three times because my parents moved. I had one friend my freshman year named Miki Vukovich. Miki and I were the only skaters in our high school. He runs my foundation now.

Quotes by Tony Hawk

I got kicked out of four high schools just because people took issue with the colour of my skin. As if I could help the colour I was born.

Quotes by Tionne Watkins

Born Quotes

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

Quotes by Thomas Menino

When I tell people I work to stop hazing in high schools I am almost always met with shocked expressions. 'High school? Really? I thought that was something that only arrogant frat guys do in college.' But it's true -...

Quotes by Rosalind Wiseman

Between 1961 and 1982, 'The Catcher in the Rye' was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States. But all the talk about banning it made me rush out to find it.

Quotes by Richard Grenell

In elementary school, we all say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all.' In high school, we should say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, shut your mouth.' So that's what...

Quotes by Nick Vujicic

We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.

Quotes by Nick Cannon

Country Quotes

In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.

Quotes by Michael Welch

Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.

Quotes by Michael F. Easley

I got kicked out of high school, went to 3 different high schools and summer school and extra night school just so I could maybe graduate and try to make it up, because I flunked pretty much my entire freshman...

Quotes by Marisol Nichols

The SAT plays an important role in helping admissions officers around the country sort out students, well-deserving students from 20,000 high schools that have different curriculums, different grading standards, and different ability to help students get ready for college.

Quotes by Jonathan Grayer

I agreed to go on a date with a nice young man who was a former student of my uncle, who taught music in high schools and colleges. The nice young man took me to a party at his sister's,...

Quotes by Jody Lynn Nye

Education Quotes

Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my...

Quotes by Jill Scott

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

Quotes by James S. Coleman

There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.

Quotes by James S. Coleman

I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade...

Quotes by J. Michael Straczynski

I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football...

Quotes by Irv Kupcinet

Family Quotes

You do not need to go to journalism school if you want to work in the fashion industry. I think high schools condition you to think this way: If you want to be a fashion editor, go to fashion school....

Quotes by Eva Chen

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these quotes say about high school experiences?
A mix of perspectives - teaching acting and dance in high schools between acting jobs, moving and changing high schools three times, and an observation that all American high schools end up feeling much the same.
Is there a quote about all high schools being similar?
Yes - it claims the specific school you attended in America barely matters, because underneath the differences, the high school experience tends to feel remarkably similar everywhere.
Do any of these quotes compare elementary school and high school lessons?
One does - it contrasts the gentler elementary school version of staying quiet when you have nothing nice to say with a much blunter high school phrasing that simply tells you to keep quiet altogether.
What does the quote about changing high schools describe?
It describes changing high schools three times due to family moves, and recalls one close friendship from freshman year with a fellow skater who now runs the speaker's foundation.
Which related topic connects naturally to school life?
The Education collection pairs well here, since these high school memories are really reflections on the broader experience of growing up in school.

For more on upbringing and roots, see our Family and Country collections.