Gonzaga was the kind of place you’d not even think about loving until you’d left it for a couple of years.

If I could do anything, I would go to the middle of our planet, Earth, and seek uranium, rubies, and gold. I’d look for Unspoiled Monsters. Then I’d move to the country. –Florie Rotondo, age...

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to...

worksheets – the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).

Mom, is the world coming to an end?” Jonny asked, picking up the plate of cookies and ramming one into his mouth.”No, it isn’T,” Mom said, folding her lawn chair and carrying it to the...

Everything I need to know… I learned in kindergarten.

I tell him about … Jack and Annabel, smart and ready and I’m wondering where all that smart comes from and I figure some from parents, some from school, and some from a place inside...

If it weren’t for the fact that he’d been flat on his back in a full body cast, then recovering, he probably would be glad he missed finishing the school year since it meant he’s...

No one answered. You could hear the light buzzing over us. I love that sound. It means school isn’t working, that the teachers are losing the battle.

I wanted to capture what language ability tests could never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.

your gonna meet new people, but be careful most of them are 2 faced. But remember the most important people is God and family aren’t 2 faced so look up to the ones that are...

Our overall theme is to really support individuals, and I’m not just talking about students. Educators in the school also need to take some risks, commit to life-long learning and develop the skills in being...

That’s a long time — I think too long for that program, considering all the attributes and the things that school and that program have to offer. It’s almost unbelievable.

I fancy my father thought me an odd child, and had little fondness for me; though he was very careful in fulfilling what he regarded as a parent’s duties. But he was already past the...

Schooling will give you knowledge to make your living, but education is for living a life.

Nobody can make you feel ignorant but you—the you from before, the one who skipped school and slept in class. By you, of course, I mean me.

My score doesn’t matter. As a coach, the big thing at the high school level is to work on course management. I stress shot selection and playing smart golf. It’s knowing what shots to take,...

I didn’t give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.

There’s nothing harder and more unpredictable than high school state tournaments. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a team persevere better. I know I’ve never coached one, but I don’t know if I’ve ever...

Before I started (college), that’s the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject…his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire...

Fifth grade was fourth grade with something wrong. Nothing changed outright. Instead it teetered. You’d pushed futility at Public School 38 so long by then you expected the building itself would be embarrassed and quit....

Suddenly, Tara’s accomplishment was clear. She had lined up allies among the school’s various groups and got them all to work together for probably the first time in the school’s history. She was like a...

I’m a little nervous since it’s a new school and new surroundings, … I’m more worried about classes.

So here’s the deal: I speak up in class, I get sent to office. Megan speaks up in class, she’s a “strong, assertive model student.”I post a few flyers saying that the vending machines on...

Kids didn’t have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn’t have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through...

There’s a lot of bands in this school who would like to participate.

You don’t really need to be intelligent to be a ‘top student.’ All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam.

Bryant is getting very close to 200 percent of its capacity, essentially another elementary school.

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.

Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don’t decorate my locker,…

The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.

There’s no crying in the rank book.

Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent.” Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. “You should have resisted. That’s like blaming someone who was...

That’s always been my style. Even when I was an assistant and a head coach in high school my teams ran. I want the guys to have fun and I think they like the fast...

I was sent to a school with bosses for teachers- no Twain, only cane; check your dick you harry, no Dickens either, No Tom Sawyers no David Copperfields only Webster, master it for grammar, the...

In the second year … a parent, a single mom, can now send their child to a public school that is in a different part of town, and they will get their transportation costs paid...

In brief, the teaching process, as commonly observed, has nothing to do with the investigation and establishment of facts, assuming that actual facts may ever be determined. Its sole purpose is to cram the pupils,...

High School: Oh, man. This is where boys and girls go from tweens to teens and become complicated and cruel. Girls play sick mind games; boys try to pull each other’s penises off and throw...

Our procedure is if a student misses school, they’re just counted absent. There have been no comments or big rush or threats of students saying they’re going to leave.

I’m just going to say her name,” he said.

We’ve got him doing some extra homework, really concentrating on school. That’s the most important thing.

It makes it real tough, because we’re a small school. We might have to dump some of our non-league games, because we play double-headers in league.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative,...

The school itself gave me $31,027, and federal grants are expected to total about $5,600.

I personally feel that this board never requested the number of districts or the number of members on the school board,

He’s had a lot of success as a young wrestler and coming in to the high school situation you don’t know how a freshman is going to react to it.

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling…and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and...

You can’t eat straight A’s.

[In a visit to a Gaza City school at the start of the new school year Saturday, Abbas said the withdrawal will improve daily life.] God willing, the people will live in peace and security,...

I’ve never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.