I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'
The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
I had a very bad first experience of Shakespeare at school, and, now I'm determined to put that wrong right and just make Shakespeare as vivid and live as possible.
I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.
While there's no substitute for real experience, I believe it helps to hear and share stories of resourcefulness in action - almost like case studies in school.
Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.
I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.
I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.
You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
I spent most of my young life in the business and missed out on school events. I needed to be a young person and do what I wanted to do.
Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.
I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.
I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.
The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.
It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, 'Wow, this is cool!'
As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
I'm actually graduating early. I got a lot of work done already. Being home schooled, I have had a lot of tutors help me.
I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.
