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.

I had been waiting to receive an award all four years of playing high school volleyball and to have six seniors (make) the first team all-southwestern league it was really special.

A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.

If this is the case, then we as a school system need to talk with the developer to see about their willingness to assist us (with potential donations) because of impacts by their community.

it’s back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.

We want to do better than last year. Can we get the school record? It may be too early in the season, but these kids have the heart and they all have Penn experience, which...

Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children….

School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives.

Robert said, “This is great, huh? Sorry to butt in and everything, but I really need the extra points. For my grade.”Ben nodded and tried to smile. Right, for his grade. He probably wanted to...

The textbooks are dumbed down to the where your kid sister could probably read them, and the teacher go over and over and over the same stuff anyway, drilling it into your head so that...

I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don’t understand that. Gosh.

This time Elizabeth Ann didn’t answer, because she herself didn’t know what the matter was. But I do, and I’ll tell you. The matter was that never before had she known what she was doing...

Only by concealing our identities can we shed the masks we have to wear at school, at work, even at home – everywhere there is surveillance, policing, punishment – masks that are increasingly indistinguishable from...

In middle school, I got picked on a lot. But boy, it sure felt good to get picked, because who doesn’t like to get chosen and called out as special?

Melelahkan sekali ketika kita terus mengejar pengakuan dari orang lain. Kepuasan harus berasal dari diri sendiri. Aku tidak mau terlihat menyedihkan. Aku ingin sahabat dan keluargaku merasa bangga. Dan bukan kebanggaan yang kubangun di atas...

She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

Where’s my bed?!” Dairine shrieked.”It’s on Pluto,” Nita said. “On the winter side, somewhere nice and dark and quiet, where you won’t find it if you look all day-which you’re not going to have time...

[Dr. Ira Black, chairman of the neuroscience department at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey, has studied stem cells for years. He’s co-founder of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey.] What...

I’ve just had too much school work to do.

It’s overwhelming social programs and school systems across the board.

It’s amazing. We’ve never been this far. It’s new for the school to be here. It’s good to know you’re the only team that has done this.

We don’t learn anything there [school]. The difference between schoolteachers and philosophers us that school-teachers think they know a lot of stuff that they try to force down our throats. Philosophers try to figure things...

Cricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules, Mistry. It’s a gentleman’s game. Don’t you ever forget that.

I think that the school district did not make an adequate case for the new school.

My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her ears and then neon orange to the frizzy ends. I...

Earth is a school of darkness and your purpose is to educate yourself of your light.

There’s a bigger transition period for a kicker. You’re used to kicking off a tee in high school. You don’t have the same rush. You don’t get in as many pressure kicks. It takes maybe...

As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children...

Jane is someone who has really learned to become a very good, polished high school skier. She is self-made because she really worked and worked and never gave up.

More than half the states now require passage of a test before awarding a high school diploma. Proponents claimed this additional hurdle would ‘raise the bar’ for educational quality. But SAT and ACT scores show...

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there. Page 188

Knightley Academy stood out against the moonlight in silhouette, a ramshackle collection of chimneys, turrets and gables. Both boys stopped to take in the sight of the manicured lawns and tangled woods, the soaring chapel...

There are three reasons. The school has been good to me, and we’re in a bind now. I miss working with the kids in a game I still love. And, as the athletic director, it’s...

Some students will be forced to drop out of school as a result of these budget cuts. There are faces to each and every one of these dollars.

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

By passing your GCSEs you prove that you’re not an idiot… But by passing your A levels you prove that you’re smart