You have to work for it. I’m old school; you have to put in the work to get the results in the end. Everybody in today’s society wants it right now, right now. Right now,...

Can we please drop the whole ‘school starts tomorrow’ talk? I’d like to live in denial for a little while longer.

I am a teacher. I should be giving tests, not taking them.

We’ve actually tucked the elementary school back with the industrial to create a little more buffer.

Why can’t we repeat 8th grace five times and call that a high school education?

Les beaux yeux qui ne demandent qu’à sourire ! (pg. 9)

If you’re not a smart worker, it’s about how hard you work double the amount from the heart; if you’re not a hard worker, it’s about how smart you work but times two from the...

Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive.

Never be discouraged. The fact that you will be a winner at the first attempt is unclear. You don’t get master’s degree after attending school on the first day. You got to endure till you...

Statistics greatly underestimate dropout rates because they rely on school principals who weren’t checking on them. When students disappeared, the principals just wrote them as transfers.

Old school, split the house… It was cool.

Every umpire hired into the major leagues came from the minors. It’s like being paid to go to school for the diploma and training you need for the chance at a very well-paid job.

Creation is scientific.

The saddest thing I have ever experienced is watching a fellow nerd I’ve known forever and befriended, trying to unnerdify themselves. It was painful because that great geeky personality I loved so much is hidden...

If you want to have an excellent school district, you have to pay for it.

Yet that is considered an excellent school, and I dare say it would be if the benighted lady did not think it necessary to cram her pupils like Thanksgiving turkeys, instead of feeding them in...

We’ve reached a point in human history where higher education no longer works. As a result of technology, higher education in its traditional college setting no longer works. It will never be effective or progressive...

Forget the garden rake. Remember that time you dived over the desk at that guy in moot court? Had him by the throat in two seconds flat, that’s what I heard.””You heard wrong.””And they suspended...

Three out of my four years in high school, that’s amazing. I have to say team chemistry (is why). I’ve played with Amanda since kindergarten, and that’s really great to have for ball movement and...

To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!

School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be.

It’s very clear that our school districts need an awakening.

However my mother had once said, ‘When you go to art school, you’ll find everybody sitting around practicing how to do their signature’; and sure enough, there they were, some of them doing just that.

How many of us readers say this quote and mean it. “If I knew what I know now life would be different”….

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering and humiliation and deep hurt to a person who is trying so hard...

We want to get the School Board involved with this, too, … Only a very small part of this will be used as a substation.

Joe was so tired that he had slept through first hour Spanish, second hour history, and most of third hour English. The English teacher, Mrs. Lane, hadn’t taken a liking to that. She decided to...

Don’t you know that’s what college is about…students spending years gathering useless information they’ll never use again, going hopelessly into debt, just so they feel smarter than the rest of their family? I mean, that’s...

The adult world that runs our school considers this a teachable moment (a new phrase for our era) where children will learn to process loss and grief and loneliness by sitting in the football bleachers...

When I was a schoolboy in England, the old bound volumes of Kipling in the library had gilt swastikas embossed on their covers. The symbol’s ‘hooks’ were left-handed, as opposed to the right-handed ones of...

This semester has born in me the flame of hope to one day become a leader in the modern feminist movement. I can and will be the force that blows new life into it, giving...

[On school uniforms] Don’t these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It’s not a new idea, either. I first saw it in...

Chase is the Georgia State Player of the Year and a high school school All-American. He’s a forward that has set several scoring records. What I like about Chase is his all-around athletic ability, toughness...

You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to...

Greg is a true gentleman and an outstanding student. He enjoys school and the challenges it offers him. He is also one of the hardest working players I have ever coached. With an incredible amount...

I can just tell you there was nobody I recruited more. Nobody knew his high school coach more. Nobody had him on his campus more. Nobody offered him sooner. Why he went out of state,...

The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.

What you learn is your greatest treasure.

Success comes with failure which leads to doubts but with determination we can still achieve.

They should be allowed to stay in school so they can become productive, tax-paying members of society. If they drop out, it’s more likely they’ll live in the streets and become drug addicts.

They had to find a quiet place in the school for a voice-over, like a closet or an empty classroom.

High school sucked. It was a universal truth and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional.

We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment...

If you can get students involved, they feel like they belong, and they are going to do better in school,

What is society but an individual? […] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean...

School overpopulates students’ minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow.

That is what is marvelous about school, she realized: when you are in school, your talents are without number, and your promise is boundless. You ace a math test: you will one day work for...

School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing...

[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism andcompromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting itinstead into meek subservience to authority.