Quotes about school
school self creating
Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the structures of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another. John Taylor Gatto
school learning exercise
School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily basis, pitting potential associates against one another in contests for praise and other worthless prizes.
school order truth-is
The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.
school ideas sound
Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.
school years jail
School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.
school personality style
The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot that fits nobody.
school pyramids egyptian
Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid.
school texas police
The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known. John Sherman Cooper
school autumn made
As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school. John Sergeant Wise
school thinking people
If I want to put a Christmas tree in my yard, or three crosses for the crucifixion story, that's fine. But if I try to use public property or a public school as a way to impress my religion on other people, I think that violates the constitution. John Shelby Spong
school acting
I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far. John Ratzenberger
school waiting mustache
I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school. John Oates
school boots rewards
The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education. James S. Coleman
school average achievement
In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.
school chemistry physics
In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics. James Rainwater
school half lions
Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver. Laurence J. Peter
school character issues
Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus on any particular school district, was simply used to illustrate this position. Kwame Kilpatrick
school men guy
I enjoy my relationship with straight men. It's very nurturing. It's very validating to hang out with straight guys and be accepted. So many of us, we were not accepted when we were younger by straight persons in high school Kyan Douglas
school passion class
I always saw my peers finding some cool passion, but every time I tried one of those things, it never clicked. I would leave school and go to my theater class, and that's when I'd actually sit down and listen. Liana Liberato
school exercise class
...we're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature. These works-- groundbreaking, incendiary, timeless-- have been pureed by the curriculum monsters into a digestible pabulum of themes and factoids we can spew back on a test. Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary. Libba Bray
school kids eye
My platform's called Don't Even Think About It. I go to schools and I say, 'Whatever bad thing it is you're thinking of doing, don't even think about it. 'Cause I can see into your soul, and I will hide in your closet and come for you in the night, and the last sound you ever hear will be my sharp teeth popping through the flesh of my gums, ready to eat you.' Their eyes get all big. It's awesome. I love little kids, man. They're the cutest
school appreciate understanding
Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.
school sheep stuck
Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep.
school skills feet
Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.
school thinking tools
Its so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. Its like the worlds weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, Who is this tool standing up in front of us?
school done acid
I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.
school government self
Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders. Friedrich August von Hayek
school views issues
The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.
school numbers people
The younger generation of today has grown up in a world in which in school and press the spirit of commercial enterprise has been represented as disreputable and the making of profit as immoral, where to employ a hundred people is represented as exploitation but to command the same number as honorable.
school scary driven
They put the Negroes in the schools, and now they've driven God out. George Andrews
school
(The event) is important to us, it's part of our school community, and we need to show our support.
school holiday government
The challenge for any government is how do you do two things at the same time. How do you put money forward for things like the payroll tax holiday, for things like getting a jump-start on infrastructure, for building schools, and make the decisions for long-term deficit reduction. Jacob Lew
school men giving
Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market .... What good are these approaches for? These attempts are made by men who are cerebral insufficient. I'm trying to give you back your brain, which they took away from you in schools and in your upbringing. I'm trying to show you how the world works. So if you want a better world, you have to get up off your ass and make it better Jacque Fresco