Successful teaching is not head-to-head; it is heart-to-heart.

So you think the best way to prepare kids for the real world is to bus them to a government institution where they’re forced to spend all day isolated with children of their own age...

The only problem i had with literature that I simply couldn’t figure out was that the correct answer was the first thing that comes to your mind after reading the question, the most obvious one....

Sorry I’m late,” Ms. Egami said to the class. She dropped her papers, which scattered in that special way papers do when one is running late.

I went to school at a school that doesn’t exist anymore. It was called the Walden School, so you can guess a lot of things from it by the name, right? We were allowed to...

Teachers’re always using that “in your own words.” I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It’s their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How’re you s’posed...

It really welcomes us. We feel like we’re part of the school now.

People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they’re too stupid to realize they ought to be living in the city.

The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.

Today that legend is inscribed on the stones that were used to build the walls of the school, and as the water falls out of the sky and over those stones, the words of the...

I want to kidnap kids and force them to take useless tests all day long. Wait, that’s what our public education system already does.

Dewey believed that education has a practical function and should not be seen as a series of pointless hurdles to jump over before ‘real life’ begins. Education isn’t a preamble to life; it’s part of...

On nous veut avec les stigmates des grandes écoles, je le veux avec les stigmates de la vie.

I’d had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to...

Running made you look guilty.

Eighth grade’s a distant rumor, a tabled issue, and Dylan knows from experience that the summer between might change anything, everything. He and Mingus Rude too and even Arthur Lomb for that matter are released...

What the school district is doing here . ‘ . ‘ . is prohibiting a student from quoting the Bible.

The school decided to cancel the game.

When students cheat on exams it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

It’s very hilly. There isn’t a good location (there) for a school.

Songs have taught me more about life than school ever has and how to follow my ambitions no matter what they are and how to live my life no matter the trade-off.

Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.

If I wouldn’t have spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher, I’d know how to punctuate. Good thing I normally write poetry.

Indira was surrounded by people who had given up hope, who blamed their own misery on the influence of Christianity and western cultures, and yet, literally in the midst of squalor, her family had created...

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

I don’t think I would want to be the school board to say that.

Michael Noonan has made a lasting impression here at Westport High School, academically, athletically and personally.

Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us.

It’s been a long time coming and I’m glad the school put financial resources up to do this. We also appreciate what Mr. Krause so generously donated. Without his generous donation, I don’t think we...

No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness.

Teaching middle school is an adventure not a job.

if you can manipulate time so this bell would hurry up and ring, I’d think it’s fabuloso.” The class snickered again, but not everyone since someone else had made a similar joke just several minutes...

The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election.

I know at Ole Miss, we have great facilities. I haven’t been to their school [Idaho] yet, but I think he’s going to do a fantastic job there.

The roof was torn off the gym. God’s way of telling the jocks that they’d better remember who’s really charge.

Isn’t that better?

Growing up, the only class I didn’t doodle in was Art class, because there I’d get to spend the whole time drawing.

A failing grade does not denounce a child to fail in life. An IQ is what I would call an ‘inadequate question’, it may state our brain capacity or tell us how smart we are,...

We don’t have 25,000 messengers to send our message out like the school district has .

They climbed the wide stairways. Their footsteps echoed and echoed through the house. “What on earth will you be doing with something so large?” said Mum.”I shall live in it with my servants, of course,”...

Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child’s emotional and philosophical life as well as his intellectual life, and at the end of school, like Turing, Zuse found himself...

As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other’s eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of...

Sequel to Albert Einstein’s quote “education is what remains after you have forgotten what you learned in school,” beauty is what remains inside a body after it has wrinkled.

(Jack Quick) is just amazed at all the changes. Everything was just cornfields, the school and basically a couple homes.

My first priority is school. I try real hard to study and get my work done whenever I have free time. I do my homework before practice that way I’m free for both basketball and...

You’re weird,’ she said. ‘You don’t have any friends.”I didn’t come here for friends,’ said Bod truthfully. “i came here to learn.’Mo’s nose twitched. “Do you know how weird that is?’ she asked. “Nobody comes...

Jesse has been training real hard and we can’t wait for him to join our high school team next year.

We’re still young. We will have better depth hopefully, and they are one year more familiar with the high school style game. We know we’ve got talent. The challenge is putting them together and having...

Being a successful student is about more than reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic. It’s about being a skilled negotiator, a keen observer, and a master planner.

But to go to school in a summer morn,O! It drives all joy away;Under a cruel eye outworn,The little ones spend the dayIn sighing and dismay.