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...

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.

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.

One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type of intelligence, and it’s incredibly restrictive – very, very restrictive. There’s so many types of intelligence,...

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience...

I don’t want to learn in a classroom anymore. I want to travel and talk to people and learn that way. I want to learn as I go,gathering knowledge and not being rigorously tested on...

[By 4 a.m., after no word came that they had missed the flight, school superintendent David Black chartered two buses to take relatives and friends on the four and a half hour trip to New...

The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge...

Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.

I’ve learned far too much to know everything.

Back when I was growing up we didn’t have teleportation devices. We actually had to walk to school. In the snow. And shoes hadn’t even been invented yet.

Knowledge without wisdom is like a beautiful lady without morals

I think it?s a little adjustment for him, getting in school and all, with the different requirements and obligations, balancing school and golf. I think it?s going to take a little time for him to...

I never had what it takes to make a first-rate anything.”That’s wrong,’ she declared. ‘Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It’s just a matter of drawing it out, isn’t it?’ But...

I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn’t sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game...

In between bites of banana, Mr. Remora would tell stories, and the children would write the stories down in notebooks, and every so often there would be a test. The stories were very short, and...

I’ve been thinking that you, me and Kristy should all have a sleepover or something like that. Wouldn‘t that be so cool! – Carol

…your zeal to face life’s rough and tumble, your ardor to accept the responsibilities of adulthood is hardly congruent with the aspirations of most graduate students…’ He shook his head of disagreeable hair. ‘I need...

Books?” Ridley looked disgusted. “Carry?

CONJUGATE THIS:I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish because I did not go to Spanish...

Great. Now Renata would have even more reason to dislike her. Jane would have an enemy. The last time she had had anything close to an enemy, she was in primary school herself. It had...

Mr. Klamp laid down the law. No tardiness, no talking above 40 decibels, no untied shoelaces, no visible undergarments, no eating, no chewing gum, no chewing tobacco, no chewing betel nuts, no chewing coca leaves,...

School forces unique individuals to think, act, and, look alike.

I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady.”Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. “There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.

In high school, I dressed up as every James Bond girl. I was a teenage Pussy Galore.

A good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it

Having Oak Manor as a sixth grade center is fabulous. Having one grade here at the school has been a lot easier. I am able to coordinate the curriculum and things for the students better...

The study . . . did not find support for a high school at that time.

Earlier in the summer, I’d found the syllabi to a couple of the courses I was taking at Defriese in the fall, and I’d hunted down a few of the texts at the U bookstore,...

Dude, that horn has been with him since high school. It made him famous in Coppell and, of course, apparently made him famous (at A&M). His enthusiasm about everything is the high point of his...

Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed to complete our schooling. Open our skulls, look in with a penlight, and you’ll find an odd museum...

What are you doing now? … Just going to school and swimming?

Well we’re waiting here in Allentown,For the Pennsylvania we never found,For the promises our teachers gave,If we worked hard,If we behaved…So the graduations hang on the wall,But they never really helped us at all,No they...

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

Hobby Lobby has St. Patrick’s ornaments and garland and valentine’s, but back to school — that was another story. I had to make blocks, little crayons tied together. I tied those in little bundles for...

Malasnya ngobrol sama orang dewasa tuh, mereka terlalu realistis. Tapi, yeah, aku juga belum dewasa, jadi enggak tahu gimana rasanya di posisi mereka. Kenapa enggak kejar impian dari sekarang? Kenapa harus tunggu kaya? Itu juga...

I still remember my middle school locker combination. Maybe I should go back to my old locker to see if I left my innocence in there.

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.

I took my daughter to school, had breakfast with my dad and when I got to the farm a reporter called to ask a couple more questions and then asked how I got back from...

He is a lawyer and judge of the school that says, you take the cases as they come. You decide on the basis of the facts and law, and you don’t let ideology get in...

It’s not just introducing the salad bar into school, it’s introducing a way of eating.

I won’t say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like “What I’m Going to be If I Grow Up

Basically, the high school students are placed into an elementary school on basis of need.

Mrs. Hanks taught that everybody’s bodies were exactly the same. She was ignorant and didn’t think much about things, but she was teaching her students to be ignorant too. She was teaching them the wrong...

It struck her how sad it was that all of them had grown up on top of one another like small animals in a too-small cage, and now would simply scatter. And that would be...

He’s a very detail-oriented guy. For this job, he’s got a great combination of old-school work ethic – knowing how to put the time in – and the new generation that uses computers and video...

I encourage any student who has ever complained or been dissatisfied with this school to come out and run for one of these positions. The Student Government Association is here to better the lives of...

I didn’t need seven years of medical school to know what was next.