In cases where you’re trying to do more complex, sophisticated tasks in middle school, that’s not as easily translatable into a multiple-choice test, … If we used more authentic assessments, we might find they’re not...

Ukiwa na kipaji nenda shule kurekebisha kipaji chako, ukiwa na ujuzi nenda shule kurekebisha ujuzi wako.

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. ‘I’ll have to admit that he’s a very competent scholar.’Isn’t he just a librarian?’ Garion asked, ‘somebody who looks after books?’That’s where all the rest of...

What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to...

One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that...

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

This is a big thing for our team, school and our state.

I don’t think this has ever happened before, particularly in the first week of school, … We’re pleased to invite the teams here and give them access to our facilities.

It can be a watershed district, it can be a school district, it could be another state agency. Just about anybody, if we have good samples, can submit data and we would use the data...

A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means “standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy...

I remember skipping school a few times to go watch the Big East tournament (at Madison Square Garden).

Tie me up, please…” Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the depression in the canal they were standing in. She was in his hands—he...

No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do...

She turns to us, acts surprised to see us, then does the bit with the back of the hand to the forehead. “You’re lost!” “You’re angry!” “You’re in the wrong school!” “You’re in the wrong...

For in the forest someone is always watching and someone is always listening!

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn’t write a novel,...

If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated.

Is this what Principal Fontana meant by the phrase ‘well-rounded’?It’s fucking spherical, Catamounts.

Farid asked, ‘Do American teachers care about every student?’I thought about a humanities teacher I’d worked with in Korea and more recently a science teacher I’d worked with in Germany. I said, ‘I think most...

Whatever is going to trip the student’s trigger is fine with me. If it makes them come to school to want to learn for social reasons… that’s a wonderful reason to want to excel.

I wasn’t aware that was how I felt, either, until it was out. And now that I’ve said it like that, I’m not exactly sure it is how I feel. But this isn’t a piece...

We have lunch at ten-forty-five,” Colin said. A stupidly early lunch. At our school, the older you get, the stupider your lunch period.

Lufkin ISD appears to be the only school district in the region _ possibly the only one in the state _ still housing hurricane evacuees in school district facilities, … We have to have some...

Life at a vile boarding school is in this way a good preparation for the Christian life, that it teaches one to live by hope. Even, in a sense, by faith; for at the beginning...

This is as good as it gets. For a high school marching band, it’s like going to the Super Bowl. The national and global exposure is very positive public relations for the school.

This school is about understanding,

George Mason is classified as a school where there are some libertarian professors, and that makes it somewhat unusual. There are a lot of colleges not welcoming to libertarians and conservatives.

That’s something I admire about them. They get players you don’t hear much about in high school but a bunch of them end up being drafted.

Most bullies are the product of a stressful and often abusive home life. Next time a bully threatens or attacks you, just yell, ‘Don’t abuse me like your parents abuse you!’ Then call children’s services...

It has truly been said that ‘Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.

I’m so old school I’m like a one-room schoolhouse—with no bathroom. I always keep it classy.

I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the...

The school is a mother

Schools kill time and creativity. Find ways to workaround these limitations

My cross county coach in high school made a big impact on me as a athlete. I have been dreaming of having a cross county team to work with and have that impact on them...

I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent ‘E’ is stupid.

I have no objection to the school district cooperating, it can certainly be beneficial. I want us to have the ability to stop our involvement if we determine the need to do so at any...

The inaugural morning at Merston High was officially over. It was no longer a mysterious place in Melody’s imagination, filled with endless possibilities and hooks on which to hang hopes for a better tomorrow. It...

In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young bodies, distort reality to dullness, make action drudgery. Those who submit...

It was 1976.It was one of the darkest days of my life when that nurse, Mrs. Shimmer, pulled out a maxi pad that measured the width and depth of a mattress and showed us how...

Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.

To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.

The enemy of learning is knowing.

Kids who are good at traditional school—repeating rote concepts and facts on a test—can fall apart in a situation where that isn’t enough. Programming rewards the experimental, curious mind.

I have no plans other than to finally be there to greet my daughter when she gets off the school bus. I’m looking into all options, both inside and outside the business. I’d like to...

Work is part of school.

Ultimately, if the board decides to centralize the campus, then we will decide what to do with the school.

That boy is talented. You don’t develop those gifts in houses or in schools.

But we’re a university! We have to have a library!” said Ridcully. “It adds tone. What sort of people would we be if we didn’t go into the library?””Students,” said Senior Wrangler morosely.

School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.