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It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.

Quotes by Jonathan Kozol

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping...

Quotes by Jonathan Kozol

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.

Quotes by Jonathan Kozol

In primary school I was terrible. I don't think I was particularly well behaved in high school, but I started to apply myself.

Quotes by Jonathan LaPaglia

When I was at school, you had to choose; there was a lot of pressure to assimilate. You were an Aussie, or you were one of 'the wogs' - which was everybody else. But I didn't want to be in...

Quotes by Jonathan LaPaglia

I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art...

Quotes by Jonathan LaPaglia

I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going to happen on every page before you even start writing dialogue - the entire plot and character arcs...

Quotes by Jonathan Levine

When I was in middle school, the librarian there was secretary for a couple of groups of professional writers. She introduced me to Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson, and I became very friendly with them over a period of two...

Quotes by Jonathan Maberry

I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.

Quotes by Jonathan Glazer

At some of our most competitive universities, 17 times the amount of students that can go to the school, apply. And these applicants are from all over the country, and admissions officers need ways to sort through them. The SAT...

Quotes by Jonathan Grayer

I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.

Quotes by Jonathan Haidt

I've always been a sci-fi/fantasy guy. My book reports in school, whenever you didn't have to do it on Shakespeare, I did it on, like, Piers Anthony and Raymond Feist.

Quotes by Jonathan Hickman

As a kid, I always wanted to be like Spielberg and to make wonderful movies. Even when I was making 'Indiana Jones,' I was looking at how he would come up with these amazing shots and how he would choreograph...

Quotes by Jonathan Ke Quan

I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera.

Quotes by Jonathan Ke Quan

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

Quotes by Jonathan Demme

I grew up in the Bay Area until 1976, then I pretty much went all the way through primary and high school on Bainbridge, though like anybody who grows up on an island, I ran the first chance I got.

Quotes by Jonathan Evison

Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me.

Quotes by Jonathan Bennett

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

Quotes by Jonathan Bennett

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.

Quotes by Jonathan Brandis

We have been in Victoria for 3 years now after moving here from Vancouver. Victoria is a great place to live and we plan on staying especially as the kids are now in school.

Quotes by Jonathan Brown

Frequently Asked Questions

What different kinds of school are reflected in these quotes?
The quotes touch on several types of schooling - being a "late bloomer" in regular high school, attending Sunday school and Bible readings at church starting in first grade, skipping film school entirely, and studying natural sciences at a Swiss Polytechnical School.
Is there a quote about religious or Sunday school?
Yes: "Once I started first grade, I started going to Emmanuel Baptist Church regularly. I went to Sunday school. We had Bible readings and things like that." For more devotional, school-related content, see Prayers.
Is there a quote about not attending film school?
Yes: "I never went to film school, so I never had the chance to be rejected," a wry take on skipping formal film education entirely. For more lighthearted content on this theme, see Jokes.
Is there a quote about being a late bloomer in school?
Yes, one reflects on being a "late bloomer" even back in high school, watching everyone else move ahead while feeling behind - a pattern the speaker says also carried into a filmmaking career.
Is there anything here about advanced or scientific study?
Yes, one references studying toward a diploma in Natural Sciences at the Swiss Polytechnical School in Zurich, where early contact with fundamental research began. For lighter, more playful school-themed content, browse Rhymes or Poems.

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