Truancy Quotes

“It was ironic that the kids who didn't go to school would be punished with the threat of being kicked out.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s

“Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it: we may seize the moment, toss it around while the moments pass, a short dash here, an exploration there, but we are brought round full circle to face again the single immutable fact --”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“I had failed to follow the fundamental school rule that you ought to turn up every day. The truth is I found it boring and I don’t do well with that. I have learned to deal with hurt, embarrassment, pain of many sorts, but boredom in this world seems unforgivable.”
― Sandi Toksvig, Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

“A good teacher must be able to make his/her lecture riveting and entertaining enough to deter truants from playing truant.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes