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“Madoc was always calm, after all. So calm all the damn time growing up. He didn’t shout or show his anger until he’d had enough. And you never knew exactly when that was going to be. That was the scary part about him.”

Book:Rival

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“It was downright depressing, the lengths it took to feel special when you wrote yourself out on paper. All As? Who cared? That was the standard here. Some shows, some activities? Big deal. How were you changing the world? Sometimes, when I wasn't too busy, I wondered why we had to change the world so early.”

School Expectations Pressure Change The World

Book:Noteworthy

Source: Noteworthy

“Schools aren’t here for learning,’ Lucas explained patiently. ‘They’re here to torture you until you’re eighteen and then send you out into the world to suffer in a suit for the rest of your life.”

School Torture

Book:Endgame

Source: Endgame

“The business world tells us to focus on what we're best at and delegate or outsource the rest. However, this doesn't work with all your roles, or in every situation you may find yourself in. For example, when applied to parenting, nobody can replace YOU as the parent, not even your spouse. You must act within that role, even if you aren't very good at it, because nobody else can truly take your place.”

Children Kids School Strategy Parenting Parents Outsourcing Delegation Preschool Childcare

Author:Josh Steimle

“They don’t really want to learn here. Or I think they do, but they have no time to learn what’s being taught. They’re busy trying to learn themselves. That’s probably why they didn’t talk to me. They have their own complicated landscapes, and I don’t fit.”

School

Book:The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

Source: The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

“Whether a male wants to be like his father can usually be used to determine whether he is over the age of sixteen.”

Children School Father Work Education Job Role Models Child Career Role Model

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The more educated someone is, the less likely it usually is for them to say that they do not know, when they do not know.”

School Education Knowledge Humility College University Arrogance Arrogant Uneducated I Don T Know

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Bullshit, as usual”

School Theatre South Africa Apartheid

Book:Master Harold...and the Boys

Source: Master Harold...and the Boys

“A classroom with twenty students and one teacher Has twenty-one students and twenty one-teachers.”

Children Wisdom School Education Learning Pride Professors Sharing Teachers Schooling

Book:Can I Tell You Something?

Source: Can I Tell You Something?

“State schooling in Britain both today and when I was a child seems stuck in a Victorian-era paradigm, guided by notions of discipline, obedience and deference to ones betters, of becoming a good worker and getting a good job. The idea that we go to school to find our passions, our calling, to learn to be happy, to ‘draw out that which is within’, as the root meaning of the word ‘educate’ commands, is almost entirely absent. Let alone any sense that we plebs should contemplate participating in the governing of the country.”

School Education System British Education

Book:Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

Source: Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

“Andrew Lonergan is a successful classroom teacher and father of two. He loves visiting Key West and Mackinaw Island on school breaks.”

School Teacher Social Studies Andrew Londergan

Author:Andrew Londergan

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