Truancy Quotes

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  • I remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted.

    Wall   Issues   Parent  
    Interview with Mike Allen, www.politico.com. May 18, 2010.
  • Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.

  • Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.

    Writing   Heart   Looks  
    'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 1
  • When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

    Dance   Teacher   Class  
    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life we were placed here to live. But in this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

    Country   Games   Joy  
    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • One antidote for sexual truancy lies in simply teaching youth the wonder, the miracle, the reverence for the creation of life itself. Life is a divine creation. You don't take chances with creation.

    Sex   Lying   Teaching  
  • Joy is the serious business of heaven.

    C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

    Dream   Flower   Wheat  
    "The Voice of Poetry in the Conversation of Mankind". Essay by Michael Joseph Oakeshott, 1959.
  • Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and dropouts, a failure of the educational system. Look at your truancy problem, and you're looking at your future prisoners. Put the money there.

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