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.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

I wouldn’t have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best… But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching...

I’m sure it will motivate them. They’re a top-10 school without a top-10 ranking.

As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically...

Watu wenye ujuzi au vipaji wanatakiwa kwenda shule kusomea ujuzi au vipaji vyao – kwa miezi mitatu au sita angalau.

A classroom . People trying to stick me in classrooms was becoming as predictable and annoying as people trying to kill me, but with less-fun results.

He smiled all the way to physics class. He almost laughed out loud when he passed through the door and saw her shadowy, hunched-over form casting around for a seat in the back.She was in...

Now it makes sense, for example, if the children are taking a vocabulary test of 100 words, and one of the kids misses thirteen of them, to give him an 87 percent. But we go...

Because school, no matter how insignificant and annoying it may seem as we get older and can’t wait to get away, sets us on our life’s path. It’s plants ideas for us to thrive upon,...

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

Fofocas se propagam como a peste negra, não importa a época ou local. Sempre acompanhada de uma boa dose de veneno — e não muita preocupação com a verdade —, espalhar um boato mentiroso é...

She has enormously improved the Wilson School, … I’ve said to my successor, you’ve got to look over your back.

It’s not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It’s a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning...

I want to be on top in whatever I do, and that’s also what I want for the Russellville School District. We’ve been competitive in just about every sport we’ve played in. Each individual sport...

Regarding school vs. homeschoolIf it works, send them there!If it doesn’t, don’t import it.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term ‘education’ to a person’s formal schooling.

I can’t believe I spent 13 years at school and never got taught cooking, gardening, conversation, massage, Latin, or philosophy. What were they thinking? That I would somehow live off inorganic chemistry?

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The question is not, Does or doesn’t public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of public does it create? A conglomerate of self-indulgent consumers? Angry, soulless, directionless masses? Indifferent, confused citizens? Or...

This is just a preliminary meeting for the two school boards to talk and to meet with Bill Braden from the (Henderson, Mercer and Warren) Regional Office of Education in order to find out how...

Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authorities of surveillance and registration, its experts in normality, who continue and multiply the functions of the judge, should have become...

We really knew before high school that it was going to happen like this. It was our time. It’s basically just been confidence. It’s not been thinking you’re better than anybody. It’s just believing that...

School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn.

[On hearing that 86% of gay teens have experienced harassment] Eighty-six percent? Eighty-six per-fuckin-cent WERE harassed?! That means fourteen per-fuckin-cent WEREN’T harassed? WHAT?!At MY school a hundred percent of the children – gay, straight, transgendered,...

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

I told them to be careful, behave themselves and go by and see their (high school) coaches while they are home. And don’t come back sunburned.

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

CANNIBAL, n. A gastronome of the old school who preserves the simple tastes and adheres to the natural diet of the pre-pork period.

We opened in probably the worst way you can open a school.

The quality of the relationships that students have in class with their peers and teachers is important to their success in school.

You should be nicer to him,’ a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. ‘He has no friends.’ This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember,...

I’ve already sent my Q-school entry in,

It was spring when it happened and the schoolroom windows were open all day long, and every afternoon after Billy left we had milk from little waxy cartons and Mrs. Jansma would read us chapters...

We have been building up our program to a point where it can compete with any school in any division. We are about there.

It is my business as a Sunday school teacher to instill a divine discontent for the ordinary. Only the best possible is good enough for God. Can you say, ‘God, I have done all that...

In the university of life, failure births experience

The American idea is a free church in a free state, and a free and unsectarian public school in every ward and every village with its door wide open to children of all races and...

If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts...

I spent the next three hours in classrooms, trying not to look at the clocks over various blackboards, and then looking at the clocks, and then being amazed that only a few minutes had passed...

No one gets lost at this school.

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

I’m going to miss playing with him. He’s a good dude. I’ve known him since high school, and we became pretty close friends. I’m going to miss that the most.

Are you kidding? I’m supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?

THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL 1. We are here to help you. 2. You will have time to get to your class before the bell rings. 3. The dress code...

It’s amazing to think only one person had made a six-figure contribution in 107 years of this school, and now we’re up to 19 with plenty of room for more.