I don't know what's worse, being ignored or stared at.
Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is.
Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.
Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.
I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.
My intent was to go to law school... And then what I realised quickly is what I wanted was to be on L.A. Law.
I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.
When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.
There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'
I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.
In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.
We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.
Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do?
We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years after I did were brought up all on the computers and that's how they do it, but I was still part of the older school.
If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.
Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.
Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.
I have a special child and there are not a lot of services around for that special child, and so we picked out a school that would be a very good school for her.
