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I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on.
Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.
I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
You wonder why we're having shootings and killings here in 2017? Because we've asked for it. We've taken prayer out of school.
My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.
High school is all about hierarchies, labels, cliques - we are labeled and structured. Everyone goes through it, more or less.
I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.
I went to a school that's predominantly computer science and engineering. So, there's a real shortage of hot girls, let's say.
I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.
I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.
You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker.
Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.
You learn something from everything you do. With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school.
I was there [in school] the full time with one teacher, and the student body was never more than 10 or 12 students of all ages.
The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.
The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.
Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School.
Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn't learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support.
I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.
I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.
I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.
In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.
Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.
When I was in high school, girls made fun of me for liking vampire movies. Now, I'd be their king. Time machine, where are you?
I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.
You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.
I knew out of high school I didn't want to go to college. I knew what whatever I did wouldn't have anything to do with college.
We have students at the university say on a regular basis, "You're asking us to think and no one has ever done that in school."
I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.
People think I'm educated because I talk and write well, but the fact is I never finished high school. I've read a lot, is all.
I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, cassette tapes or cable TV.
[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.
I am so happy that I didn’t go to school and I didn’t have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.
In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
School would be way more tolerable if everyone wasn’t so afraid to be who they really are. And if everyone else would let them.
I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.
When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.
What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.
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.
After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.
The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.
We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme song. It was ambient.
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
Every American has the right to feel safe in their schools, in their churches, in their movie theaters, and in their nightclubs.
My father's really fluent in French, but I can't speak at all. I actually took it twice in school already and failed both times!