Even the other kids who people made fun of made fun of me. That's where I stood on the school food chain.
School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.
I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.
Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.
Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.
When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.
The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher.
I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful way to understand public policy and to understand business in this environment.
Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.
I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.
Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to big companies.
Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.
My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.
Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger painting in my dress.
I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.
It isn't unusual to see children climb into a car every morning to be ferried to the front door of a school that's just a few blocks away.
