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As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. George Santayana If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. Edgar W. Howe The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. Maria Montessori It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term. Mark Twain A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. Edgar Watson Howe You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now. Don Marquis I want to run the halls of my High School, I want to scream at the top of my lungs..... Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. Saul Bellow Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning. Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated. I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing. There's a big world out there. Bigger than prom, bigger than high school , and it won't matter if you were the prom queen or the quarterback of the football team or the biggest nerd. Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it. True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. High School: the mouse race to prepare you for the rat race When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons George Carlin In one century we went from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to offering remedial English in college Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait A. Whitney Brown There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it. In New York now, they have Harvey Milk High School for gay students. They don't have much of a football team, but the half-time show . . . Bill Maher In high school you can think you're in love; but I believe you have to know yourself completely before you can truly fall in love and be loved back by someone else |
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