Quotes of: High-school-teacher Keyword

I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of hi...

Adam DeVine

When nobody read, dyslexia wasn't a problem. When most people had to hunt, a minor genetic variation in your ability to focus attention was hardly a problem, and may even have been an advantage. When most people have to make it through high school, t...

Alison Gopnik

I remember playing a high school basketball game where I didn't eat anything for breakfast. I ate, you know, like a PB and J and some chips for lunch and nothing before the game. I didn't make it through the first quarter. I wish I hadn't have learne...

Andrew Luck

Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high school over and over again in a small town ---- anymore than they would hurt the physically disabled or the m...

Anne Rice

American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school...

Caroline Knapp

I’m not sure I ever met an American teacher in Korea that hadn’t volunteered at an orphanage at least once—even our resident idiot could be surprisingly decent on occasion—but I’ve also visited foreign countries where children are taught ha...

The Rainy Season

School of Fish: Hey, hey! You like impressions? Dory: Mmm-hmm. School of Fish: Okay, just like in rehearsal, gentlemen. [School takes form of swordfish] School of Fish: So, what are we? Take a guess. Dory: Oh, oh, I've seen one of those. School of Fi...

Finding Nemo

I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.

Jason Mewes

I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.

John Hume

High Roller: Ginger, honey, this is for you, love. Thanks for your time. [tries to give her a small handful of chips] Ginger: Come on. High Roller: What's the matter? Ginger: What do you mean "what's the matter"? I made a lot of money for you. I want...

Casino

The description of Huck’s father grabbed my full attention, and I glanced up at the book in my teacher’s hand as if to double check. My eyes bulged reflexively. Huck’s father was an abusive drunk just like mine. The boy was hopeful that a corps...

Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher

A teacher is someone who ploughs with his tongue to fill his little bowl with rice.

Chinese

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

Billy Higgins

If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations.

The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret

I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

Fritz Sauckel

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.

Charles S. Dutton

I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.

Douglass North

Sami and I had exactly one day together in the old world. On Tuesday the jihadists came to our front door and knocked down our buildings. Our new world was hijacked planes, anthrax, and Afghanistan. Then we had snipers inside the Beltway. Then came I...

The Rainy Season

This framing accents the importance of building a tidier system, one that incorporates the array of existing child care centers, then pushes to make their classrooms more uniform, with a socialization agenda "aligned" with the curricular content that...

Standardized Childhood: The Political and Cultural Struggle over Early Education

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished

Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year