School Engagement Quotes

Education has not been marketed well to young people. We have not made it look fun to be smart. Today young people have been sidetracked by the marketing of music and movies and everything else, but education has no marketing strategy.

My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.

School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high school is so much fun.

I was a good student, but I didn't like school.

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

Engaging with your school as a unit of community is pretty powerful.

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.

I always enjoy speaking at schools. The questions are usually direct but courteous and designed to elicit an answer rather than to simply impress the friends of whoever is asking them.

Safe Routes to School is one with great potential to get children walking and biking to school again. The program uses federal grants to make road and sidewalk repairs aimed at getting kids to school safely on foot or bicycle. The money also supports efforts to get the community, school officials and others involved.

My attendance in school was 30 per cent. I was always travelling with my parents.

There was nothing I could - and wanted to - learn in school. It was just a complete waste of my time.

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.

I think if we give kids a break in education, we would have fewer crimes being committed. If we keep them on track, they know that they have options. It's important for me because, you know, my life would've been different had I not had the education that I had.

Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.

I started off as a kid who didn't care what my education was.

I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school.