Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: ‘You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of...

An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader.

School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards — wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity — come from ignoring others and improving ourselves.

It was Monday morning. Swaminathan was reluctant to open his eyes. he considered Monday specially unpleasant in the calendar. After the delicious freedom of Saturday and Sunday, it was difficult to get into the Monday...

The essence of education is not to get a certificate or job but, to be a holistically developed person who can positively impact the society.

Many of our elected officials have virtually handed the keys to our schools over to corporate interests. Presidential commissions on education are commonly chaired by the executives of large companies.

Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and ‘caning’ sounds more English than ‘having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.

The after-school program taught me a lot, because I stay out of trouble more now.

In cases where you’re trying to do more complex, sophisticated tasks in middle school, that’s not as easily translatable into a multiple-choice test, … If we used more authentic assessments, we might find they’re not...

Ukiwa na kipaji nenda shule kurekebisha kipaji chako, ukiwa na ujuzi nenda shule kurekebisha ujuzi wako.

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. ‘I’ll have to admit that he’s a very competent scholar.’Isn’t he just a librarian?’ Garion asked, ‘somebody who looks after books?’That’s where all the rest of...

What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to...

she gets paid to go to school.

After the Skyline game, we were talking about it. Everyone at school was talking about.

It’s not appropriate. I don’t know why anyone would do that. That is an absolute clear violation of the (school) policy.

I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your first move will be to apply yourself in school.

Life is science.

We are very excited about breaking two records. Our goal was to break some school records. We wanted to break three, but we only got two. This is the highest we have finished in a...

I didn’t start carving until after I went to school in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the Institute of American Indian Arts in 1966.

She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons….

My mentality is just a little different now, because in high school I had to do a lot of scoring, … But now I can pass the ball to my teammates and get them involved...

When we were little,” the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, “we went to school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle –...

I felt like I was back in high school, getting pulled out of the game so early.

It’s more of a blow for his school.

Somebody is born. Somebody goes to school. Somebody learns to conform. Somebody types a CV. Somebody gets a job. Somebody follows orders. Somebody gets a golden watch. And then, eventually, Somebody dies. And, a Nobody...

A school bell that sounds annoying at 8:00am sounds exciting at 4:00pm ….it is a matter of time , you will get there.

Nein, die Schule hat keinen bestimmenden Einfluss auf meine Entwicklung gehabt. Die Schule hat von meinen besonderen Anlagen wohl instinktiv etwas gespürt, sie aber als obstinate Untauglichkeit gewertet und verworfen. Ein Lehrer drohte, zufällig nicht...

I’ve been there before. At Deer Park (1984-1996) the school had only made the playoffs in 1956 and 1974 (since its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s). We made the playoffs nine of the 12...

Obviously this is big for Mary Alice. She’s broken just ridiculous amounts of school records and she had her best indoor season ever.

Mark, trying his best to distance himself from the cruel and pathetic 21st century, hadn’t listened to the news reports, not even when the dark green jeeps and helicopters showed up in town, men dressed...

But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expurgated versions.

Life at a vile boarding school is in this way a good preparation for the Christian life, that it teaches one to live by hope. Even, in a sense, by faith; for at the beginning...

This is as good as it gets. For a high school marching band, it’s like going to the Super Bowl. The national and global exposure is very positive public relations for the school.

This school is about understanding,

George Mason is classified as a school where there are some libertarian professors, and that makes it somewhat unusual. There are a lot of colleges not welcoming to libertarians and conservatives.

That’s something I admire about them. They get players you don’t hear much about in high school but a bunch of them end up being drafted.

Most bullies are the product of a stressful and often abusive home life. Next time a bully threatens or attacks you, just yell, ‘Don’t abuse me like your parents abuse you!’ Then call children’s services...

It has truly been said that ‘Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.

One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that...

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

This is a big thing for our team, school and our state.

I don’t think this has ever happened before, particularly in the first week of school, … We’re pleased to invite the teams here and give them access to our facilities.

It can be a watershed district, it can be a school district, it could be another state agency. Just about anybody, if we have good samples, can submit data and we would use the data...

A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means “standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy...

I remember skipping school a few times to go watch the Big East tournament (at Madison Square Garden).

Tie me up, please…” Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the depression in the canal they were standing in. She was in his hands—he...

No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do...

She turns to us, acts surprised to see us, then does the bit with the back of the hand to the forehead. “You’re lost!” “You’re angry!” “You’re in the wrong school!” “You’re in the wrong...

For in the forest someone is always watching and someone is always listening!

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn’t write a novel,...