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.

The argument could be made that the word ‘hero’ is overused. I do not think, however, that this is the case when referring to teachers.

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.

The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear.

When I was twelve, my sixth-grade English class went on a field trip to see Franco Zeffirelli’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. From that moment forward I dreamed that someday I’d meet my...

Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don’t practice studying things you don’t like, then you’ll have a very hard time in life.

[What is Amanda Beard doing in school, anyway? At her bewildering, Van Wildering academic pace, you might think that her favored stroke is the crawl. Besides, she already has fame, fortune and an FHM cover.]...

On the board, Mr. Beery had written “Those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it.” I wasn’t sure if this was meant to be inspirational, thematic, or a joke about making sure to...

I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.

There are reports that some of the northerners attacked a primary school near the barracks this morning and killed some children.

Tuan Putri, jangan pernah melibatkan urusan kamu sama orang lain! Jangan jadikan tujuan pribadi seolah-olah tujuan bersama!

I went to school to be a comedian. I was always cracking jokes in class. And after they were cracked, the teacher would try to put them back together.

We know being a successful private school that we’re under a watchful eye. We were very willing and open for the investigation. They spent a lot of time and energy looking at us, and we...

While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover their vocations and responsibilities, and not merely cram their minds with facts and...

We wanted to break our school record. We definitely think we could get it at nationals.

Most of the time in high school if you just worry about yourself, your team will win. That’s how it is. But out here you have to do all the other things.

This school is enough to make anyone a communist.

Jake always trains hard. He trained hard in high school and trained hard as a freshman. He just has a lot of belief in himself. He had a really good indoor season and I think...

If I had been armed with a feminist understanding that no girl deserves to be called a slut, perhaps I would have fought back by reporting the harassment to my school’s headmistress or another school...

I started to lift. I really looked up to those high school guys. I wanted to be like them. I wanted to be bigger than them,

It sure would pass for one. We knew there was a Rosenwald school out there.

I said school starts tomorrow. I didn’t say I was going to be there.

If the school is closed and the students are transferred they will have to get up earlier to be sent to Lyon, Friars Point and/or Jonestown.

The more you know the more you need to learn.

Apple is benefiting from a strong back-to-school period where students need a personal computer today, and Macs remain the preferred PC platform for managing documents, music, photos, and videos.

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

As a teen in junior high school, I was always told that I could sing. I knew then that singing and performing was what I wanted to do.

I think I’m ready. It’ll be tough leaving school behind, but I think I’m ready for that phase of my life.

With large industries throwing out the factory model as counterproductive, it is long past time for schools to do the same. I wonder how many adults would do well at dealing with different job requirements...

It used to be that a school would know who its students would be by May, … Now you have a situation where enrollments are still changing over the summer.

Many of our elected officials have virtually handed the keys to our schools over to corporate interests. Presidential commissions on education are commonly chaired by the executives of large companies.

Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and ‘caning’ sounds more English than ‘having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.

The after-school program taught me a lot, because I stay out of trouble more now.

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...

she gets paid to go to school.

After the Skyline game, we were talking about it. Everyone at school was talking about.

It’s not appropriate. I don’t know why anyone would do that. That is an absolute clear violation of the (school) policy.

I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your first move will be to apply yourself in school.

Life is science.

We are very excited about breaking two records. Our goal was to break some school records. We wanted to break three, but we only got two. This is the highest we have finished in a...

I didn’t start carving until after I went to school in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the Institute of American Indian Arts in 1966.

She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons….

My mentality is just a little different now, because in high school I had to do a lot of scoring, … But now I can pass the ball to my teammates and get them involved...