After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.
In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.
I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.
I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.
Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.
Cove is essentially a collaboration, coordination and communication tool for the administration of organizations and communities, from the Stanford Graduate School of Business Entrepreneurship Club to church groups and schools.
In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives.
My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
What happened to the tradition of walking to school? The simple answer is change. Change in traffic patterns and street planning that have made school routes less pedestrian-friendly.
My dad is quite possibly the biggest Giants fan in the world. I believe he wore a Phil Simms jersey to my high school and college graduations.
Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.
We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.
When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.
Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school.
