In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.
Lester Burnham: So, Janie, how was school? Jane Burnham: It was okay. Lester Burnham: Just okay? Jane Burnham: No, Dad, it was spectacular.
Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.
I used to spend my nights oversewing dresses for a local dressmaker in order to pay for my school equipment.
In school I was painfully shy. But as soon as I had to get up in front of the class and give a book report, it was alarming - I'd suddenly be very articulate.
I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.
I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price in the long term.
When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.
I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.
The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.
I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.
About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.
I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?
If people grow things themselves, their children understand, then schools in the area know that this community's generating something with its own energy, to consume.
Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.
Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.
I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.
If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents.
I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.
