About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.
I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?
If people grow things themselves, their children understand, then schools in the area know that this community's generating something with its own energy, to consume.
Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.
Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.
I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.
If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents.
I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.
They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.
[W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.
It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.
When you're in school until you're 25 and you get out and suddenly structure is not handed to you, if you're smart you realize that you need to create structure for yourself.
I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to the Brit School. I'm a South London girl at heart.
Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.
The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
I remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I know I'm going to America.'
A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
In high school ethics, they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much 'if it happens, it happens.'
There's a huge gulf between people who can afford to go to drama school and those who can't.
