I think, obviously, as the valleys warm up and get more sunshine and as the high school spring sports kick in, there are more activities in the metropolitan areas that compete with skiing and snowboarding.

I’m the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her.

It was like telling a high school team that in eight years they were going to have to win the World Series. It’s not impossible but not something that you would necessarily think they could...

The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you’re smarter than they are. You’re not even old enough to drive and you already know that...

I don’t believe in school prayer. I think it’s total nonsense…who is the teacher there that is going to have them pray? And is the teacher going to be Catholic or Mormon or Episcopalian or...

What’s the matter?” asked the teacher, seeing her bewildered fact.”Why—why,” said Elizabeth Ann, “I don’t know what I am at all. If I’m second-grade arithmetic and seventh-grade reading and third-grade spelling, what grade am I?”The...

Houghton was the last ‘independent’ educational publisher left. To get into the school market, Houghton was the last one.

I want to go back to high school, finish out until I graduate, get a prom date and hopefully receive some opportunities for a record, acting, or anything.

Great. I’ve been at this school for less than five hours and I’ve already made two enemies simply by existing. -Clara

Gold Coast” was a neighborhood that stretched five blocks along the lake in a sliver of land just south of Lincoln Park and north of River North. The streets were like fine necklaces and strung...

As a player he was just under 6-5 coming out of high school so he has face-up offensive skills and now he is 6-10. He can rebound, he can shoot the 3, he can block...

School means work and work means death. Let’s all go take a nap.

There’s no bobsled track at your high school.

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.

Stop worrying about someone else’s feelings for once and worry about your grade.

The other candidates were kind of vicious on Jos coming from the school district.

Anytime you beat a D.H. Conley softball team, it means something to your program. Especially a school that is only four years old. For us to come out here and get them twice this year,...

InsomniaI cannot get to sleep tonight.I toss and turn and flop.I try to count some fluffy sheepwhile o’er a fence they hop.I try to think of pleasant dreamsof places really cool.I don’t know why I...

It’s easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.

… I succeeded at math, at least by the usual evaluation criteria: grades. Yet while I might have earned top marks in geometry and algebra, I was merely following memorized rules, plugging in numbers and...

This is just a preliminary meeting for the two school boards to talk and to meet with Bill Braden from the (Henderson, Mercer and Warren) Regional Office of Education in order to find out how...

Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authorities of surveillance and registration, its experts in normality, who continue and multiply the functions of the judge, should have become...

We really knew before high school that it was going to happen like this. It was our time. It’s basically just been confidence. It’s not been thinking you’re better than anybody. It’s just believing that...

School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn.

[On hearing that 86% of gay teens have experienced harassment] Eighty-six percent? Eighty-six per-fuckin-cent WERE harassed?! That means fourteen per-fuckin-cent WEREN’T harassed? WHAT?!At MY school a hundred percent of the children – gay, straight, transgendered,...

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

I told them to be careful, behave themselves and go by and see their (high school) coaches while they are home. And don’t come back sunburned.

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

I wouldn’t have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best… But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching...

I’m sure it will motivate them. They’re a top-10 school without a top-10 ranking.

As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically...

Watu wenye ujuzi au vipaji wanatakiwa kwenda shule kusomea ujuzi au vipaji vyao – kwa miezi mitatu au sita angalau.

A classroom . People trying to stick me in classrooms was becoming as predictable and annoying as people trying to kill me, but with less-fun results.

He smiled all the way to physics class. He almost laughed out loud when he passed through the door and saw her shadowy, hunched-over form casting around for a seat in the back.She was in...

Now it makes sense, for example, if the children are taking a vocabulary test of 100 words, and one of the kids misses thirteen of them, to give him an 87 percent. But we go...

Because school, no matter how insignificant and annoying it may seem as we get older and can’t wait to get away, sets us on our life’s path. It’s plants ideas for us to thrive upon,...

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

Fofocas se propagam como a peste negra, não importa a época ou local. Sempre acompanhada de uma boa dose de veneno — e não muita preocupação com a verdade —, espalhar um boato mentiroso é...

She has enormously improved the Wilson School, … I’ve said to my successor, you’ve got to look over your back.

It’s not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It’s a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning...

I want to be on top in whatever I do, and that’s also what I want for the Russellville School District. We’ve been competitive in just about every sport we’ve played in. Each individual sport...

Regarding school vs. homeschoolIf it works, send them there!If it doesn’t, don’t import it.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term ‘education’ to a person’s formal schooling.

I can’t believe I spent 13 years at school and never got taught cooking, gardening, conversation, massage, Latin, or philosophy. What were they thinking? That I would somehow live off inorganic chemistry?

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The question is not, Does or doesn’t public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of public does it create? A conglomerate of self-indulgent consumers? Angry, soulless, directionless masses? Indifferent, confused citizens? Or...

A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.

If this is the case, then we as a school system need to talk with the developer to see about their willingness to assist us (with potential donations) because of impacts by their community.

it’s back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.