Quotes of: Primary-school Keyword

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

John Lasseter

I took Japanese in high school. I'm Chinese, though, and I just fell in love with the language and the culture.

Matthew Moy

I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.

Mickey Rourke

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

Debra Wilson

I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.

Eddie Trunk

I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.

Skylar Grey

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

Abe Lemons

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

Abraham Verghese

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

John Backus

When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there.

Abbi Jacobson

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

Benedict Cumberbatch

it's back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.

Stephen Colbert

It wasn't school that I dreaded at all. School was not half bad. In many ways, this year had been downright fun. No, what I hated most about school was the fact that I had to come here all by myself. Simon and Peter went to their classes and did thei...

Chickens in the Headlights

The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of public does it create? A conglomerate of self-indulgent consumers? Angry, soulless, directionless masses? Indifferent, confused citizens? Or a public...

The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School

Both of these students- both high school seniors both old enough to vote in the upcoming election- thought 'Al' Qaeda was a person. At that time the United States had been at war for five and a half years and here were two students two young adults l...

Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

It starts innocently. Casually. You turn up at the annual spring fair full of beans, help with the raffle tickets (because the pretty red-haired music teacher asks you to) and win a bottle of whiskey (all school raffles are fixed), and, before you kn...

White Teeth

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your fir...

Fourth Comings

The cafeteria made him feel like an observer rather than a participant in the high school experience.

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

Pretty much everyone hates high school. It’s a measure of your humanity, I suspect. If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both.

Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

Many of our elected officials have virtually handed the keys to our schools over to corporate interests. Presidential commissions on education are commonly chaired by the executives of large companies.

The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"