His sisters -- my aunts -- did not go to school at all, just like millions of girls in my country. Education had been a great gift for him. He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians t...
Middle school is kind of like Middle-earth. It’s a magical journey filled with elves, dwarves, hobbits, queens, kings, and a few corrupt wizards. Word to the wise: pick your traveling companions well. Ones with the courage and moral fiber to persev...
Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hopelessness. But not always. Politics is also a great educator. Mostly it teaches, I am afraid, cynicism. But not always. Television is a great educator ...
In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young bodies, distort reality to dullness, make action drudgery. Those who submit - as the majority does - are conditi...
By educating me at home, my parents were able to give me individualized attention without the usual distractions that kids in regular school experience, like dating and friendship. Not to mention that traditional school can be dangerous. I’ve heard...
School Principal: You can kiss Eden goodbye! Trouble awaits you... [points to Sophie] School Principal: You, my dear, in pain shall you bring forth children, wear high heels, suffer through dieting, exfoliation, face-lifts, and what's more, you'll ha...
Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed to complete our schooling. Open our skulls, look in with a penlight, and you'll find an odd museum of ideas: sentences of history or mathematics rememb...
I wasn't good at school.
I long for sleep, and for soft English rain. But they do not come.
I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.
I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English.
When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.
It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.
To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?
It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.
The Australian fans are really friendly and personable; the sense of humour is a lot less dry than the English.
Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go 'LOL' in America.
Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar.
I like costumes. I am always dressing up - I'm very English like that.
I'm not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I'm not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish.
