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“Seventh grade had a full complement of creeps, weirdos, future criminals, and nerds.”

Book:Losing Christina Collection

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Losing Christina Collection

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Caroline B. Cooney

Caroline B. Cooney is an American author born on May 10, 1947. Known for her works in young adult literature and mystery novels, her books have been highly appreciated by young readers. more

“Institutional wisdom tells us that children need school. Institutional wisdom tells us that children learn in school. But this institutional wisdom is itself the product of schools because sound common sense tells us that only children can be taught in school. Only by segregating human beings in the category of childhood could we ever get them to submit to the authority of a schoolteacher.”

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Book:Deschooling Society

Source: Deschooling Society

“Dana raised her hand. "I learned about exaggeration," she said. "It was all my teacher ever talked about. We had like ten thousand tests on it, and the teacher would kill you if you didn't spell it right." "That's very good, Dana!" said Mrs. Jewls. "You learned your lesson well.”

School Teacher Exaggeration Lesson

Book:Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger

Source: Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger

“I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.”

School Education Wonder Function Reform Being Yourself True Finding Yourself Conform Person Being Truest Me Unlearn Formal Education Nonconformist Unthinking

Author:J.R. Rim

“That which is now called learning, was not learning originally. Learning does not consist, as the schools now make it consist, in the knowledge of languages, but in the knowledge of things to which language gives names.”

School Language Knowledge Learning

Book:The age of reason

Source: The age of reason

“School is testing our memory and real world is testing our memory + how we use this which we know.”

World Real School Memory Testing Know Is How

Author:Deyth Banger

“Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?”

Mean School Past Smart You Word Celebrity Say Kid Are Was Has Eminem

Author:Deyth Banger

“It's always a kind of liberation to leave the classroom during a lesson, even just for a few minutes. As if you have managed to steal a little time for yourself, to take a break from reality”

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Author:Sara Bergmark Elfgren

“I may be a idiot, but most of the time, anyway, I tried to do the right thing, an dreams is just dreams, ain’t they? So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain’t led no hum-drum life.”

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Book:Forrest Gump

Source: Forrest Gump

“Books and school are great for learning but there is no substitute for life and living to provide a real education.”

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