Quotes about schoolhouse (12 Quotes)


    I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.


    The one-room schoolhouse contributed to the social context of the entire community. It was a place where elections were held, picnics and celebrations, public meetings.

    Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.

    Among the several evangelical Christian curriculum distributors and publishers, they have done a very good job in developing what they call the 'Switched-On Schoolhouse,' ... It's a simple way for home schoolers to get started in their homes, or in some cases to use their local churches to have a curriculum, using also the Internet as well.


    Violence in our schools can never be tolerated. When children pass through the schoolhouse door, they should find safety, not violence, ... My thoughts are with the community of Littleton that has united to counsel and protect those who are suffering during this time of sorrow.


    They struck us as articulate, capable. These kids wanted to be doctors and nurses and engineers and astronauts and then they hit the schoolhouse door and they're confronted with an environment which is not inspiring, not engaging and often disorderly and unsafe.


    And out of each (schoolhouse) is vomited the standard product of the New Pedagogy - an endless procession of adolescents who have been taught everything save that which is true, and outfitted with every trick save those that are socially useful

    In the old days, George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse doorway and told children they could not come in. Today, the foes of school choice stand in the doorway and say to the grandchildren of George Wallace's victims, 'You cannot get out'.




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