Do you know that feeling? When everything you do seems like a struggle. Where you dont wanna leave the house because you know everyone is judging you. Where you cant even ask for directions in...

School is a terrible place, I have decided. There is nothing good about it except for math class. Everything else is a total waste of time. As I mentioned before I have done a lot...

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn’t...

Romano Wasn’t Cool At School

The objective of learning is not necessarily to remember. It may even be salutary to forget. It is only when we forget the early pains and struggles of forming letters that we acquire the capacity...

No client comes to you when you’re twenty-five. It’s like when you are looking for a doctor. You don’t want the new one that just graduated. You don’t want the very old one, the one...

All these guys, they were great in high school. Let’s see …

I chose the school that I though would be best for me. There were a lot of different things between N.C. State and Martin, but I felt like N.C. State was home.

We’re using figures from the school district, their budget and we’ve used their maintenance list and we believe every word we have on the radio is accurate.

It’s interesting when you know somebody when they’re 17 and they come out of high school and spend some time with them on the college level. I remember the Duke game was one of the...

It’s not an outside thing. … It’s a West High School club putting on a West High School event.

Remember – it’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end.

Listening to the debates about public schools on the Christian Right, one hears plenty of opposing opinions and a great deal of confusion. Some want to change the schools, others want to leave them. But...

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how...

Believing this country to be a political and not a religious organisation … the editor of the NATIONAL CITIZEN will use all her influence of voice and pen against ‘Sabbath Laws’, the uses of the...

When it comes to learning success, action is your school, and failure your teacher.

Assuming that all ‘unschooled’ people to lack education is akin to assuming that a salary is the only means to make money, or, that a vagina or a penis is the only source of an...

The very least thing one should learn at the university is how to reach new knowledge.

I think early in the process it might have had a hard time meeting our eligibility standards for high school athletics,

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

If we spark a student’s passion, we unleash a powerful force upon the world.

Train your brain to gain.

Successful teaching is not head-to-head; it is heart-to-heart.

So you think the best way to prepare kids for the real world is to bus them to a government institution where they’re forced to spend all day isolated with children of their own age...

I’m trying to take more care of things at school,

I used to love school until everybody got old enough to point and laugh.

I cannot imagine a better person to launch our 75th anniversary celebrations, … For 75 years the Woodrow Wilson School has been preparing Princeton students dedicated to serving the nation and the world through careers...

I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

Do you know how to pick a lock?””Not in the least, I’m afraid.””I often wonder what we go to school for,” said Wimsey.

This meeting’s done!I now see where he gets it from—you act just like your son!

I realized everyone around me was wearing a uniform. Black pants, white button-down shirts, green ties. Gotta love the smell of institutional equality in the morning.

Humility: The most quietly profound professor in the university of Christian living.

They say education has no end. If you still disagree with this, here is a better way to take it in; “Education has an end that never comes”.

We close down the school and do building searches.

I knew that iridium-193 was one of two stable isotopes of iridium, a very rare, very dense metal, but I didn’t know that the periodic table even existed.I knew how many zeroes there were in...

Homework strongly indicates that the teachers are not doing their jobs well enough during the school day. It’s not like they’ll let you bring your home stuff to school and work on it there. You...

The societies kids naturally form are tribal. Gangs, clubs, packs. But we’re herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we’re supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at...

It wasn’t school that I dreaded at all. School was not half bad. In many ways, this year had been downright fun. No, what I hated most about school was the fact that I had...

I don’t know what I’d be doing. I’d probably just be at school, working out I guess.

It’s almost like already being in the major leagues here. They even clean you spikes for you. High school sure isn’t like this. I don’t know if I want to go back.

Sometimes, in my world where parents hated one another and school was a battleground, it sucked to be me.

Good bye AEHS. You suck. I hate you. And yet… Somehow I’ll miss you too.

Songs have taught me more about life than school ever has and how to follow my ambitions no matter what they are and how to live my life no matter the trade-off.

Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.

If I wouldn’t have spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher, I’d know how to punctuate. Good thing I normally write poetry.

Indira was surrounded by people who had given up hope, who blamed their own misery on the influence of Christianity and western cultures, and yet, literally in the midst of squalor, her family had created...

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

I don’t think I would want to be the school board to say that.

Michael Noonan has made a lasting impression here at Westport High School, academically, athletically and personally.