No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do...

She turns to us, acts surprised to see us, then does the bit with the back of the hand to the forehead. “You’re lost!” “You’re angry!” “You’re in the wrong school!” “You’re in the wrong...

For in the forest someone is always watching and someone is always listening!

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn’t write a novel,...

If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated.

Is this what Principal Fontana meant by the phrase ‘well-rounded’?It’s fucking spherical, Catamounts.

Farid asked, ‘Do American teachers care about every student?’I thought about a humanities teacher I’d worked with in Korea and more recently a science teacher I’d worked with in Germany. I said, ‘I think most...

Whatever is going to trip the student’s trigger is fine with me. If it makes them come to school to want to learn for social reasons… that’s a wonderful reason to want to excel.

I wasn’t aware that was how I felt, either, until it was out. And now that I’ve said it like that, I’m not exactly sure it is how I feel. But this isn’t a piece...

We have lunch at ten-forty-five,” Colin said. A stupidly early lunch. At our school, the older you get, the stupider your lunch period.

Lufkin ISD appears to be the only school district in the region _ possibly the only one in the state _ still housing hurricane evacuees in school district facilities, … We have to have some...

School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.

They guys are excited about it. It’s like high school again.

When I was 23, basically I stopped modelling and started going to school, and was able to study with wonderful teachers.

Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.

He’s used to being out in the open, free to do. It wasn’t like going to high school. This is only my opinion, but you’re put in a dorm and you’re restricted; it was almost...

Come back here the day before yesterday, you noodle-legged weasel!

Bersyukurlah kalau kalian dapat kritikan, berarti karya kalian diapresiasi. Kalau sebuah karya sudah dilempar ke masyarakat, karya itu bukan milik kalian lagi. Sudah jadi milik publik!

I’m so old school I’m like a one-room schoolhouse—with no bathroom. I always keep it classy.

I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the...

The school is a mother

Schools kill time and creativity. Find ways to workaround these limitations

My cross county coach in high school made a big impact on me as a athlete. I have been dreaming of having a cross county team to work with and have that impact on them...

I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent ‘E’ is stupid.

I have no objection to the school district cooperating, it can certainly be beneficial. I want us to have the ability to stop our involvement if we determine the need to do so at any...

The inaugural morning at Merston High was officially over. It was no longer a mysterious place in Melody’s imagination, filled with endless possibilities and hooks on which to hang hopes for a better tomorrow. It...

In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young bodies, distort reality to dullness, make action drudgery. Those who submit...

It was 1976.It was one of the darkest days of my life when that nurse, Mrs. Shimmer, pulled out a maxi pad that measured the width and depth of a mattress and showed us how...

Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.

To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.

The enemy of learning is knowing.

Kids who are good at traditional school—repeating rote concepts and facts on a test—can fall apart in a situation where that isn’t enough. Programming rewards the experimental, curious mind.

I have no plans other than to finally be there to greet my daughter when she gets off the school bus. I’m looking into all options, both inside and outside the business. I’d like to...

Work is part of school.

Ultimately, if the board decides to centralize the campus, then we will decide what to do with the school.

That boy is talented. You don’t develop those gifts in houses or in schools.

But we’re a university! We have to have a library!” said Ridcully. “It adds tone. What sort of people would we be if we didn’t go into the library?””Students,” said Senior Wrangler morosely.

The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what’s easy and safe, and (3) become sophisticated thinkers, the more we...

It is an inside joke of history that all its most exciting adventures inevitably end their careers as homework. Beheadings, rebellions, thousand-year wars, incest on the royal throne, electricity, art, opera, dogs in outer space.

Our Father Who Art in Heaven gathered more meaning for me as my own father joined the Maker when I was still in school.

The more time I spent at the Finches’, the more I realized what a waste of my life this school crap was. It was nothing but a holding tank for kids without bigger plans or...

Je sais très bien, depuis longtemps, que j’ai un cœur déraisonnable, mais, de le savoir, ça ne m’arrête pas du tout.

Rose’s work of art took her all day, including two playtimes, story time, and most of lunch.At the end of school it was stolen from her by the wicked teacher who had pretended to be...

It is rare that a school agrees to host a program of this size while the university is in session.

Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.

I keep seeing this ad on TV. It talks about teachers. Thank you for teaching me. Thank you for changing my life. They all look happy. Have they always been this happy? Did they have...

Nobody talked to him more. Nobody knew his high school coach more. Nobody had him on their campus more. Nobody offered him sooner. As to why he chose to go out of state, only he...

I make love like you might make an omelet. At least, I’m hoping you might make an omelet, because I skipped breakfast like a child skips home from the class he just skipped.

..it lay in the true function of the university to promote that interplay of view, that discussion and dispute, that cumulative narrowing down of possibilities that led to the formation of accurate opinion. The students...

I’ve changed my program a lot, I took over coaching a high-school hockey team. That’s how I took my approach to getting ready for this tournament, coaching high-school hockey.