A man of high principles is someone who can watch a chess game without passing comment.
The dragon teaches you that if you want to climb high you have to do it against the wind.
Fuck what you have heard or what you have seen in your son. He may lie about homework and laugh when the teacher calls home. He may curse his teacher, propose arson for the whole public system. But inside is the same sense that was in me. None of us ...
Learning about sex was a little bit like learning grammar. Every teacher you had assumed some other teacher taught you the year before, or the year before that, as if none of them wanted to talk about it, as if grammar was a bunch of dirty words. A m...
It quickly became apparent that to Mr. K, there was no such thing as an untalented kid—just a kid who didn’t work hard enough. You are going to fix this problem, he said when he diag- nosed whatever was wrong, and there was never any question. Of...
Lissa and I had been best friends ever since kindergarden, when our teacher had paired us together for writing lessons. Forcing five-year-olds to spell "Vasilisa Dragomir" and "Rosemarie Hathaway" was beyond cruel and we'd -or rather, I'd- responded ...
Erin Gruwell: But to get respect you have to give it. Andre: Bullshit. Erin Gruwell: What? Andre: Why should I give you my respect to you? Because you're a teacher? I don't know you. How do I know you're not a liar standing up there. How do I know yo...
[Unhappy with Keith as a chemistry lab partner, Natalie speaks to the teacher] Mr. Miles: Keith is actually pretty sharp when he applies himself. Natalie: Okay, but we kinda... Mr. Miles: ...lack Chemistry? Natalie: Yeah. Mr. Miles: Try to make it wo...
If the one who gave me life wants the real me to die... then all I can do is die.
The ones who stay unnoticed often see the most. They live out other people's lives, since their own are so unremarkable...
This ain't going to be no goddamn Sunday school picnic.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.
I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse.
I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.
I think it's really important that the anti-bullying messages get into schools and become a staple in every school.
I gave myself a year to be a supermodel. And I said, 'If it doesn't happen, I'm going back to school.'
I'm old-school. I want to be there to drop off my daughter at school and pick her up.
I went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made.
I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.
I found school pretty tough. I got the mickey taken out of me at school.
