My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to the pervasive class consciousness of the place and time.
Mr. McGuire: [behind Benjamin] Ben. Benjamin: [to Joanne] Excuse me. [turns] Benjamin: Mr. McGuire. Mr. McGuire: Ben. Benjamin: Mr. McGuire.
Benjamin: [after Elaine has left his room, and he realises that he's naked] Good God.
I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.
I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people.
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
What brought me to L.A. was work! I moved to Chicago after college - I went to Kalamazoo - did my nerd thing, graduated, and moved to Chicago to pursue improv.
Everyday more educators are showing that they value students by involving them in meaningful ways in school. These teachers and administrators say that it is not about ‘making students happy’ or allowing students to run the school. Their experien...
I was a loser in high school.
I did plays in grade school.
I was a geek in high school.
Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
In high school, I always dressed to impress the girls.
Boarding school is a wicked thing.
I liked going to Catholic school.
I was a high-school dropout; I was a loner.
My family and school life are important to me.
In every high school, there is a clique.
Having to go back and forth between school and filming would sometimes be frustrating because I loved school. It was my chance to be around other people my age. But when you're leaving school to go to a set that's filled with kids your age, then it's...
In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but not regularly, because I never liked writing non-fiction very much.
What do we mean when we say our school 'values' reading?
