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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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I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, so...

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The primary school I attended in Shanghai was a very liberal one, established by scholars who had re...

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I don't believe in school prayer. I think it's total nonsense...who is the teacher there that is goi...

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I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of re...

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Charles M. SchulzCharles M. Schulz: Conversations

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.

Can you imagine peaking as a teen? I think if you peak in high school, there's a problem. That's wha...

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

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Chetan Bhagat2 States: The Story of My Marriage

I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.

What grinds me the most is we're sending kids out into the world who don't know how to balance a che...

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Chris ColferStruck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you ...

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I wasn't good in school. I didn't do sports. I sat in the bedroom and listened to records. Because t...

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NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about th...

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My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow ...

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I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He h...

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What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way ...

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When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, i...

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I had a Spanish teacher in high school. I rarely got in trouble in her room because I felt I was dis...

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I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to ...

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You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their ha...

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You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in ...

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Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous....

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I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with an...

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Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm...

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I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over...

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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

It's one of my favorite seasons of the year: Back to School. As a kid, I loved fresh school supplies...

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I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like ...

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Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to ...

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I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are coo...

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Music education was always big for me. Ever since I was a young kid, I always said it was the reason...

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Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of wha...

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Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. ...

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I've always been a geek and slightly awkward... slightly umm... I was never the cool kid at school.

Drama school is a pretty intense experience, and I think it changes who you are.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exis...

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make f...

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My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies ...

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The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 2...

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I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, j...

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Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.

I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. ...

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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never h...

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Immature citizens in several sizes were massed before a large factorylike structure where advanced t...

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After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adoles...

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I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.

I had great relationship with the Hispanic - we had a lot of Hispanics in the school actually from d...

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School integration did not come to be the day after the Brown ruling was issued. Progress took years...

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When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang. We had to put a dance to a song...

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Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is someth...

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Do you know how to pick a lock?""Not in the least, I'm afraid.""I often wonder what we go to school ...

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Mr Abrahams was a preparatory schoolmaster of the old-fashioned sort. He cared neither for work nor ...

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Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law ...

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After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's university, and...

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In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to mak...

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I got married at 19 and graduated from a commuter college in Texas that cost $50 a semester. The way...

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Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw eve...

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When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four miles in ...

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I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of ob...

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I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was mus...

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