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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

It was the high school sport.

Susie: Hi Calvin! Aren’t you excited about going to school? Look at all these great school supplies I got! I love having new notebooks and stuff!Calvin:All I’ve got to say is they’re not making me...

My association of jail to high school is probably on the basic similarity of a communicable social-setting. These few settings represent a frame of reference: a somewhat fraternal order (though I never belonged to an...

Le cancreIl dit non avec la têteMais il dit oui avec le coeurIl dit oui à ce qu’il aimeIl dit non au professeurIl est deboutOn le questionneEt tous les problèmes sont posésSoudain le fou rire...

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school.

Birds do not attend flight schools; Rivers do not attend flowing colleges; Fishes do not attend swimming conferences; Trees do not attend fruit bearing seminars… There is something that you can do automatically that someone...

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.

(The program) covers the brain and spinal cord injuries, being safe at school, being safe around buses. It also talks about water safety, how you always check to see how deep it is before you...

Let’s just say, by the end of her second quarter Beli could walk down the hall without fear that anyone would crack on her. The downside of this of course was that she was completely...

For everyone who never smiled in school photos, for all who’ve wandered city streetsnot knowing the where they were or feeling alone, I’ve packed kindness.

I think they’ve learned a lot about difference and tolerance. In school ‘retard’ is a common, negative term that my oldest daughter, Amy, quickly stopped her friends from using.

Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.

I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don’t...

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

We’re thrilled for Jamie to have found a school that is a great fit for her both academically and athletically. It’s a credit to both her work ethic and ability that she is going to...

I think if you cheat in a ethics class then there’s really no hope for you.

There’s a lot of stuff that’s been going on at our school. I’m not making excuses, but they have a lot going on.

Just don’t take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.

It facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task ofmeeting the wants of each single mind, and to govern by steam. But it...

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

There is great high school wrestling in Ohio and it not only is my job to coach Ohio State, but also build strong relationships with coaches at the high school level.

One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type of intelligence, and it’s incredibly restrictive – very, very restrictive. There’s so many types of intelligence,...

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience...

I don’t want to learn in a classroom anymore. I want to travel and talk to people and learn that way. I want to learn as I go,gathering knowledge and not being rigorously tested on...

[By 4 a.m., after no word came that they had missed the flight, school superintendent David Black chartered two buses to take relatives and friends on the four and a half hour trip to New...

The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge...

Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.

I’ve learned far too much to know everything.

Back when I was growing up we didn’t have teleportation devices. We actually had to walk to school. In the snow. And shoes hadn’t even been invented yet.

Knowledge without wisdom is like a beautiful lady without morals

I think it?s a little adjustment for him, getting in school and all, with the different requirements and obligations, balancing school and golf. I think it?s going to take a little time for him to...

I never had what it takes to make a first-rate anything.”That’s wrong,’ she declared. ‘Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It’s just a matter of drawing it out, isn’t it?’ But...

I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn’t sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game...

In between bites of banana, Mr. Remora would tell stories, and the children would write the stories down in notebooks, and every so often there would be a test. The stories were very short, and...

I’ve been thinking that you, me and Kristy should all have a sleepover or something like that. Wouldn‘t that be so cool! – Carol

…your zeal to face life’s rough and tumble, your ardor to accept the responsibilities of adulthood is hardly congruent with the aspirations of most graduate students…’ He shook his head of disagreeable hair. ‘I need...

Books?” Ridley looked disgusted. “Carry?

CONJUGATE THIS:I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish because I did not go to Spanish...

Great. Now Renata would have even more reason to dislike her. Jane would have an enemy. The last time she had had anything close to an enemy, she was in primary school herself. It had...

Mr. Klamp laid down the law. No tardiness, no talking above 40 decibels, no untied shoelaces, no visible undergarments, no eating, no chewing gum, no chewing tobacco, no chewing betel nuts, no chewing coca leaves,...