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When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfu...

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That which is now called learning, was not learning originally. Learning does not consist, as the sc...

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Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education...

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A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tel...

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I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's ...

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I've always been into computers. When I was getting out of high school and forming my identity music...

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Somewhere in this world there exists an exceptional philosopher named Florie Rotondo.The other day I...

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Truman CapoteAnswered Prayers - The Unfinished Novel

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding scho...

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My most difficult class at Harvard Business School would have to be finance.

I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grade...

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Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported enti...

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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture da...

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I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I c...

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But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school bo...

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School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men....

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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere ...

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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which mo...

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Education must not simply teach work - it much teach life

And the final product of our training must be neither a psychologist nor a brick mason, but a man. A...

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The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants t...

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The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

But to go to school in a summer morn,O! It drives all joy away;Under a cruel eye outworn,The little ...

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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be be...

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In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get o...

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What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

Every boy learns more in his hours of play than in his hours of labor. In school, he lays in the mat...

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I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. S...

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I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and se...

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I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but...

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It starts innocently. Casually. You turn up at the annual spring fair full of beans, help with the r...

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I went to Northwestern because I had gone to a really nontraditional high school. I was like, 'It'd ...

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Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous...

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It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got...

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My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf...

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

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next...

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The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this t...

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It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two years...

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My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made mor...

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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath ...

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We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must chec...

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The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.

I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the d...

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One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. Th...

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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers...

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Many of our elected officials have virtually handed the keys to our schools over to corporate intere...

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Alfie KohnThe Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.

I wanted to capture what language ability tests could never reveal: her intent, her passion, her ima...

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Amy TanThe Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life

Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Ge...

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I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, t...

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You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life....

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I never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn't run around with ...

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I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home -...

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Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern i...

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The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their hig...

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Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report wri...

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

The human heart is my school.

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Anne RiceThe Vampire Armand

'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be succ...

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Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed t...

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I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from ...

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One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing abo...

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Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not su...

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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm woul...

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We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we hav...

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To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs ...

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High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organ...

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Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abus...

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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade...

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What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life ...

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I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circ...

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You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstei...

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As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a tes...

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

You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.

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Bill WattersonThe Essential Calvin and Hobbes

Susie: Hi Calvin! Aren't you excited about going to school? Look at all these great school supplies ...

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Bill WattersonThe Revenge of the Baby-Sat

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice...

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People think of poetry as a school subject... Poetry is very frustrating to students because they do...

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Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the ra...

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I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42....

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I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I...

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Well we're waiting here in Allentown,For the Pennsylvania we never found,For the promises our teache...

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In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say...

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Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, ...

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I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinn...

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I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in way...

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One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type ...

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For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system...

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No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely th...

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Burton RascoeThe Joys of Reading: Life's Greatest Pleasure

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

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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary s...

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I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to expe...

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The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Tail.' I was a...

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