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Parochial Quotes

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end Picture Quote #1

On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin Picture Quote #1

I am the enemy of anything parochial Picture Quote #1

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy Picture Quote #1

Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission Picture Quote #1

I envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices - public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, blended, and home education. They then can choose the model that best equips their children for success Picture Quote #1

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90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant Picture Quote #1

It’s time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education Picture Quote #1

Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global Picture Quote #1

In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us Picture Quote #1

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy Picture Quote #1

In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials don’t choose to do so more often Picture Quote #1

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I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one Picture Quote #1

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world Picture Quote #1

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century Picture Quote #1

It’s a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it’s about a man who’s been doing bad; bad things. and he’s a father of four children in parochial school, he’s a lieutenant of detectives, but he’s in conflict with himself and with trying to do what’s right Picture Quote #1

The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people’s interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise Picture Quote #1

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world Picture Quote #1

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There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning’s books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn Picture Quote #1

If you reject the infinite, you are stuck with the finite, and the finite is parochial... the best explanation of anything eventually involves universality, and therefore infinity. The reach of explanations cannot be limited by fiat Picture Quote #1

It is humanity’s destiny to explore the universe. When we start thinking and working on that cosmic level, we will transcend our parochial differences and tribal natures and become global creatures, solar system creatures. Then we will figure out where we fit in Picture Quote #1

Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view. Numbers, properly considered, make us better people Picture Quote #1

As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society and people are our meat, one really doesn’t belong in the midst of society. The great challenge in writing is always to find the universal in the local, the parochial. And to do that, one needs distance Picture Quote #1

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Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end (Parochial Quotes) On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin (Parochial Quotes) I am the enemy of anything parochial (Parochial Quotes) For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy (Parochial Quotes) Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission. (Parochial Quotes) I envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices - public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, blended, and home education. They then can choose the model that best equips their children for success. (Parochial Quotes) 90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant. (Parochial Quotes) It’s time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education. (Parochial Quotes) Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global. (Parochial Quotes) In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us. (Parochial Quotes) For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy. (Parochial Quotes) In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials don’t choose to do so more often. (Parochial Quotes) I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one. (Parochial Quotes) The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world. (Parochial Quotes) Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century (Parochial Quotes) It’s a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it’s about a man who’s been doing bad; bad things. and he’s a father of four children in parochial school, he’s a lieutenant of detectives, but he’s in conflict with himself and with trying to do what’s right (Parochial Quotes) The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people’s interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise (Parochial Quotes) I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world (Parochial Quotes) There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning’s books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn (Parochial Quotes) If you reject the infinite, you are stuck with the finite, and the finite is parochial... the best explanation of anything eventually involves universality, and therefore infinity. The reach of explanations cannot be limited by fiat (Parochial Quotes) It is humanity’s destiny to explore the universe. When we start thinking and working on that cosmic level, we will transcend our parochial differences and tribal natures and become global creatures, solar system creatures. Then we will figure out where we fit in (Parochial Quotes) Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view. Numbers, properly considered, make us better people (Parochial Quotes) As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society and people are our meat, one really doesn’t belong in the midst of society. The great challenge in writing is always to find the universal in the local, the parochial. And to do that, one needs distance (Parochial Quotes)