Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children….

School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives.

CANNIBAL, n. A gastronome of the old school who preserves the simple tastes and adheres to the natural diet of the pre-pork period.

We opened in probably the worst way you can open a school.

The quality of the relationships that students have in class with their peers and teachers is important to their success in school.

You should be nicer to him,’ a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. ‘He has no friends.’ This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember,...

I’ve already sent my Q-school entry in,

Only by concealing our identities can we shed the masks we have to wear at school, at work, even at home – everywhere there is surveillance, policing, punishment – masks that are increasingly indistinguishable from...

In middle school, I got picked on a lot. But boy, it sure felt good to get picked, because who doesn’t like to get chosen and called out as special?

Melelahkan sekali ketika kita terus mengejar pengakuan dari orang lain. Kepuasan harus berasal dari diri sendiri. Aku tidak mau terlihat menyedihkan. Aku ingin sahabat dan keluargaku merasa bangga. Dan bukan kebanggaan yang kubangun di atas...

She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

Where’s my bed?!” Dairine shrieked.”It’s on Pluto,” Nita said. “On the winter side, somewhere nice and dark and quiet, where you won’t find it if you look all day-which you’re not going to have time...

[Dr. Ira Black, chairman of the neuroscience department at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey, has studied stem cells for years. He’s co-founder of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey.] What...

I’ve just had too much school work to do.

It’s overwhelming social programs and school systems across the board.

It’s amazing. We’ve never been this far. It’s new for the school to be here. It’s good to know you’re the only team that has done this.

We don’t learn anything there [school]. The difference between schoolteachers and philosophers us that school-teachers think they know a lot of stuff that they try to force down our throats. Philosophers try to figure things...

Cricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules, Mistry. It’s a gentleman’s game. Don’t you ever forget that.

I think that the school district did not make an adequate case for the new school.

My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her ears and then neon orange to the frizzy ends. I...

Earth is a school of darkness and your purpose is to educate yourself of your light.

There’s a bigger transition period for a kicker. You’re used to kicking off a tee in high school. You don’t have the same rush. You don’t get in as many pressure kicks. It takes maybe...

As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children...

Jane is someone who has really learned to become a very good, polished high school skier. She is self-made because she really worked and worked and never gave up.

More than half the states now require passage of a test before awarding a high school diploma. Proponents claimed this additional hurdle would ‘raise the bar’ for educational quality. But SAT and ACT scores show...

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there. Page 188

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.

Robert said, “This is great, huh? Sorry to butt in and everything, but I really need the extra points. For my grade.”Ben nodded and tried to smile. Right, for his grade. He probably wanted to...

The textbooks are dumbed down to the where your kid sister could probably read them, and the teacher go over and over and over the same stuff anyway, drilling it into your head so that...

I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don’t understand that. Gosh.

This time Elizabeth Ann didn’t answer, because she herself didn’t know what the matter was. But I do, and I’ll tell you. The matter was that never before had she known what she was doing...

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.