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.

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...

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.

It’s been a long time coming and I’m glad the school put financial resources up to do this. We also appreciate what Mr. Krause so generously donated. Without his generous donation, I don’t think we...

No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness.

Teaching middle school is an adventure not a job.

if you can manipulate time so this bell would hurry up and ring, I’d think it’s fabuloso.” The class snickered again, but not everyone since someone else had made a similar joke just several minutes...

The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election.

I know at Ole Miss, we have great facilities. I haven’t been to their school [Idaho] yet, but I think he’s going to do a fantastic job there.

The roof was torn off the gym. God’s way of telling the jocks that they’d better remember who’s really charge.

Isn’t that better?

Growing up, the only class I didn’t doodle in was Art class, because there I’d get to spend the whole time drawing.

A failing grade does not denounce a child to fail in life. An IQ is what I would call an ‘inadequate question’, it may state our brain capacity or tell us how smart we are,...

We don’t have 25,000 messengers to send our message out like the school district has .

They climbed the wide stairways. Their footsteps echoed and echoed through the house. “What on earth will you be doing with something so large?” said Mum.”I shall live in it with my servants, of course,”...

Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child’s emotional and philosophical life as well as his intellectual life, and at the end of school, like Turing, Zuse found himself...

As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other’s eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of...

Sequel to Albert Einstein’s quote “education is what remains after you have forgotten what you learned in school,” beauty is what remains inside a body after it has wrinkled.

(Jack Quick) is just amazed at all the changes. Everything was just cornfields, the school and basically a couple homes.

My first priority is school. I try real hard to study and get my work done whenever I have free time. I do my homework before practice that way I’m free for both basketball and...

You’re weird,’ she said. ‘You don’t have any friends.”I didn’t come here for friends,’ said Bod truthfully. “i came here to learn.’Mo’s nose twitched. “Do you know how weird that is?’ she asked. “Nobody comes...

Jesse has been training real hard and we can’t wait for him to join our high school team next year.

We’re still young. We will have better depth hopefully, and they are one year more familiar with the high school style game. We know we’ve got talent. The challenge is putting them together and having...

Being a successful student is about more than reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic. It’s about being a skilled negotiator, a keen observer, and a master planner.

But to go to school in a summer morn,O! It drives all joy away;Under a cruel eye outworn,The little ones spend the dayIn sighing and dismay.

My name is Percy Jackson. I’m twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.Am I a troubled...

I went into Aussie tour school as a part-time golfer who had no real understanding of the game except at club level,

I don’t think it’s just him, I think it’s every player coming out of high school. I think the intensity level is something they’re just not used to coming out of high school.

When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of...

For the first 30years of life, you keep learning. The rest of your life you keep unlearning what you had learnt

I asked the students to wear white and carry American flags at school. We can display flags of the countries where we came from during International Day. We need to show our support and love...

There’s a huge difference for taking responsibility for one’s actions, and taking credit, and in this scenario I think we need to give credit where credit is due. I won’t take responsibility for my teacher’s...

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s!!!

Schools train you to be ignorant with style […] they prepare you to be a usable victim for a military industrial complex that needs manpower. As long as you’re just smart enough to do a...

I can tell you this much, no school board member ever told me I had to get rid of any coaches. That’s being honest with you. Nobody said you should get rid of anybody. I...

He saw her right after the seventh-period bell rang. She seemed dressed for the sole purpose of blending in with the lockers, but she stood out, anyway. It didn’t matter that her wide blue eyes...

The ground for the necessity of Christian schools lies in this very thing, that no fact can be known unless it be known in its relationship to God. And once this point is clearly seen,...

We have an outstanding youth program and middle school program. Imagine what we could do in high school if I do my job better.

Nuk shquhej për zgjuarsi, por në mësime ishte i pari.

Everything I learned in school, mixed together with water and chicken broth, isn’t worth the soup served at a soup kitchen. I was a bring-my-own-spoon kind of student.

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don’t care about anymore.

That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn’t do school anymore. Something inside wouldn’t let me.

People don’t want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you’re a teacher you’re in a constant battle with mildly...

They didn’t exchange a single word. But in the weeks that followed, Trip spent his days wandering the halls, hoping for Lux to appear, the most naked person with clothes on he had ever seen....

One school of thought would be to put it in Ashley where he (McGowan) was born.

My third grade teacher at S. Ellen Jones (Elementary School), Yvonne Grundy. She wouldn’t let me slack. If I half did something, she made me do it over.

He went around and made pinecone ornaments and sold them around the school and his neighborhood and he earned $40. He gave all of it to student council for the penny drive.

I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me …