School Failure Quotes

School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.

Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called 'educators' in the public schools. Children who are home-schooled by their parents also score higher on tests than children educated in the public schools. ... Successful education shows what is possible, whether in charter schools, private schools, military schools or home-schooling. The challenge is to provide more escape hatches from failing public schools, not only to help those students who escape, but also to force these institutions to get their act together before losing more students and jobs.

In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront.

My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble.

Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.

Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.

There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.

I tell my kids, 'Don't do well in school, and you, too, can end up at sea.'

The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.

School typically doesn't prepare young people for real life - unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that's why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.

Americans should understand that 50%, or something like, of the kids in inner-city schools, often poor and often minority, don't graduate. And the ones that do don't necessarily have the skills to get a job. That is the biggest disgrace in this country.

One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.

School didn't work for me. I hated it.

Equal access to public education has been achieved. But what is the good of access to a failing school?

America's high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they're broken, flawed, or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools-even when they're working as designed-cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.

Too many children today are trapped in schools that don't work for them.

The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time.

I just started singing 'cause I had dropped out of school.

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

I failed every class up until I dropped out freshman year.

If your gonna drop out of school / tough grades are not your goal / then change your name to Candy and learn to work a pole.

I never finished the ninth grade.

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

Generational disinterest in education means that too many young children lack the push from their parents in early years which can make the difference between success and failure in schools.