Djuna Barnes Quotes

Teachers across the world are doing all they can to ensure a good education is the top priority for children.

It's one of my favorite seasons of the year: Back to School. As a kid, I loved fresh school supplies, new outfits, the change of seasons, and the chance to crack open a new textbook.

Part 3 BACK TO SCHOOL (THE NORMAL KIND)

Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.

Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.

I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.

In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.

The point we must aim at is to obtain admittance for our children to the nearest and the best schoolhouse.

More than anything, we must do better for our children's education.

Students should feel excited and prepared for the new school year.

I have a foundation where it caters to street children and entices them to go back to school. The street is not a good school for them. They need to go to a proper school.

I would like to go back to school, potentially.

If I had to go back to school for anything, I'd go for astronomy.

Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to write a science book for young people?

By the way, although the subtitle of the book "Three Cups of Tea" is "fighting terror, one school at a time", that was not my choice, as fighting terror is not why I do this, I do it to promote peace, and give hope and opportunity to children deprived of education.

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

Fifty seven million children across the world don't want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen.

We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.

The Information Age is, first and foremost, an education age, in which education must start at birth and continue throughout a lifetime. Last year, from this podium, I said that education has to be our highest priority. I have something to say to every family listening to us tonight: Your children can go on to college.... Because of the things that have been done, we can make college as universal in the 21st century as high school is today. And, my friends, that will change the face and future of America.

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!

Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me that's a distant second. When I see a child clutching a book... to his or her tiny bosom, I'm moved. Children can possess a book in a way they can never possess a video game, a TV show, or a Darth Vader doll. A book comes alive when they read it. They give it life themselves by understanding it.

Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.