Mrs. Hanks taught that everybody’s bodies were exactly the same. She was ignorant and didn’t think much about things, but she was teaching her students to be ignorant too. She was teaching them the wrong...

It struck her how sad it was that all of them had grown up on top of one another like small animals in a too-small cage, and now would simply scatter. And that would be...

He’s a very detail-oriented guy. For this job, he’s got a great combination of old-school work ethic – knowing how to put the time in – and the new generation that uses computers and video...

I encourage any student who has ever complained or been dissatisfied with this school to come out and run for one of these positions. The Student Government Association is here to better the lives of...

I didn’t need seven years of medical school to know what was next.

If you desire it, you must punish yourself for the sake of learning, seek every advantage in keeping up with the other clerks and in excelling them. You must study with the fervor of the...

There was nothing like a Saturday – unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled...

At it’s highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student’s mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its...

You meet me after school right here”, I said.”Why?” he asked.I couldn’t believe he was so stupid.”Because we’re going to finish this fight.””You’re crazy,” Roger said.He got to his feet and walked away. His gang...

The school takes its coloring from yourown attitude,

Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian’s mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

School made us ‘literate’ but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

We are encouraged by the new product launches, which are timed in front of the back to school season. While a low-end product would have margins below Palm’s corporate average of 39 percent, we have...

Perhaps we should make it into a school or a hospital. It symbolized the mentality of Saddam Hussein, and then it also became the symbol of everything that went wrong during the occupation.

I must endure, fighting the temptation simply to become slack-jawed like most of my school ‘peers’ (they wish!), who will themselves into a collective, vacant, trancelike state for the duration of each class. (Although I...

Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stages of their adolescence. A certain streak of genius makes an ominous impression on them, for there exists a deep gulf...

The master always keeps a piece of learning–that is to say, a piece of the student’s ignorance–up his sleeve. I understood that, says the satisfied student. You think so, corrects the master. in fact, there’s...

School is one long illness with symptoms that switch every five minutes so you think it’s getting better or worse. But really it’s the same thing for years and years.

Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

About 80 percent of the homicide victims did not finish high school.

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

That is an issue that we (school administrators) need to stay on top of and make sure that our students and adults who attend our games do not make personal comments to players, coaches and...

Education is one of the greatest gift for mankind. Each one of us must seek this enlightenment.

For Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being put in the stocks and forced to endure the peltings and outrages of a mob of deranged half-wits, an experience from which...

I shuffle along, letting the current pull me, and i have the sense that I am like a rat caught in a maze of tunnels, moving endlessly toward some promise of…of what? Light? Life? Cheese?

It gives a tremendous advantage to mid-major programs. Having coached at a good mid-major school [Illinois State], I can tell you there are a lot more good road wins on that level.

We talked about school over the summer in 2004. (We decided) to combine classes.

I just got the word that school is called off tomorrow,

Okul denen yerin aslında temel soruları cevaplamadığını, yalnızca onları hayatın gereği olarak benimsememize yardım ettiğini çıkarmıştım.

As special as it is to listen to your friends argue over whether or not you have a mental illness,I’m starting to get the urge to go back to class.

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

The teachers will get together, and they’ll pick something that’s best for their school.

I can assure you that the allegations in the lawsuit are false, and Jupiter Christian School is confident that the legal system will fully exonerate the school. Jupiter Christian School officials did not out Mr....

I was born scientist but my school turned me into just student

How one lives during limited time on earth’s school is perhaps how one may dwell in the space of eternity.

I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a...

Everybody’s situation is different. If Tim Duncan stayed in school another four years it didn’t matter what Tim Duncan did his senior season. I think there are some guys that are NBA guys… I think...

So I grew up in an area where it wasn’t expected that I would have a kind of scholastic career, or go to grammar school, or anything like that.

At school, everything feels weird. No one looks at me or pays attention to me, no one says hi, no one asks how I am feeling, and everyone is so quite. It’s like I don’t...

The essence of true education in one’s life is to show the presence of mind, heart and soul to sense everything right

I’m ready for (today). My whole goal has been to leave my mark on Manatee High School wrestling. I’m going in there confident.

I think it’s become the premier all-star game in the state. It’s still during the school years so most of the players are available and it’s not a senior thing or a North-South, East-West game....

Don’t forget to give Neville our love!’ Ginny told James as she hugged him.’Mum! I can’t give a professor love!”But you know Neville-‘James rolled his eyes.’Outside, yeah, but at school he’s Professor Longbottom, isn’t he?...

Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet.

Ms. Fang is the nicest, sweetest teacher at Scary School. She only ate twelve kids last year.

When I was growing up, I’d walk to school in the snow. In Florida. Uphill all three ways.

School is learning things you don’t want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn’t know, while working toward a future you don’t know will ever come.

The school was only on lockdown for about 20 to 30 minutes.

Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.