I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things.
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
If a minister can lead the Senate in prayer every day... what is so wrong with beginning every day of school with an ecumenical prayer?
It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.
There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.
I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.
I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.
I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief.
school people must not fall into the trap of thinking that early preparation for an unjust world requires early exposure to injustice
It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'
Friendship...is not something you learn in school,but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.
Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?
Hollywood producers aren't going to say, 'Get me that swearing, grey-haired, headless chicken. We need him for our new 'High School Musical' movie!'
If I had gone to drama school, I wouldn't be sitting here now because it would have blanded me out; it would have just turned me into another actor.
In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.
Schools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs and abilities of the children who enter them.
One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.
There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.
