Quotes by School If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists. Bill Gates empathyoptimismschool Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe. Bill Gates kidsyearsschool By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education. Bill Gates jobspeopleschool Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology. Bill Gates technologyyearsschool The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich should give disproportionately - the more, the better - and I think there is a positive trend in that direction - there are certain risk-taking things, like trying out a new type of charter school or funding a new kind of medicine. Bill Gates medicineschoolthinking I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool. Bill Gates sixth-gradetestsschool My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive. Bill Gates dadsuccessfulschool What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life. Bill Gates meanpeopleschool You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both. Bill Gates educationlifeschool 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. Bill Gates meanamericaschool Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student. Bill Gates high-schooldegreesschool In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in. Bill Gates differentkidsschool I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other. Bill Griffith new-yorkartschool When I got to Saturday Night Live, it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out. Bill Hader nightlongschool I'll show you Obama's birth certificate when you show me Sarah Palin's high school diploma. Bill Maher diplomabirthschool A new biography came out that says that in high school Obama was a huge pothead … Mitt Romney had to respond to this and said, ‘It is appalling that Obama spent his teenage years goofing around and smoking pot when he should have been pinning down gay kids and cutting their hair. Bill Maher teenagekidsschool Sarah Palin should not be on vacation. She should be in summer school. Bill Maher vacationsummerschool Republicans are always saying we should privatize things like schools, prisons, social security - hey, how about we privatize privacy! Because if the government forbids gay men from tying the knot, what is their alternative? They can`t all marry Liza Minnelli. Bill Maher gaymenschool When I was in high school the worst thing you could ever get was VD. Talk about the sniffles! I just want to meet an old-fashioned girl with gonorrhea. Bill Maher gonorrheagirlschool Rick Perry said Obama's suggestions for gun control disgust him. He said the real answer to this problem isn't laws, it's prayer. You know, i know you're not supposed to say this about elected officials, but I would pay to see Rick Perry defend himself against a school shooter with prayer. Bill Maher realprayerschool«5556575859606162636465»
