“The school systems at my childhood had enough money or enough parent involvement that they felt like learning music and songs, and exploring the whole pop or classical canon, were just as important as algebra or biology. Music is such a visceral and tactile experience for a kid, and to just replace that with video games or something that doesn't have the same sort of physical impact would definitely be a poor choice, and have a negative impact.” ImportantEnoughKidsSchoolSongChoicesParentPoorChildhoodMusic IsNegativeBiologyExploringInvolvementAlgebra Author:Carrie Brownstein
“I had a tough childhood, yes. I was born in rural Bangladesh to parents who had had no education beyond high school. We moved to the UK where I grew up in poverty, in some of the worst conditions in a developed economy, before moving to the projects - heaven - and I went to unremarkable schools before going to university. My father was a bus conductor first and then a waiter, and my mother a seamstress.” SchoolMovingMotherFatherHeavenParentPovertyEconomyChildhoodWorstHigh SchoolToughMovedBusConductorWaiter Author:Zia Haider Rahman
“I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.” PeopleKindDifferentSchoolMotherCultureRichChildhoodBrotherGood PeopleDifferent KindsBrothers And SistersSpending Time Author:Damian Marley
“I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.” SchoolFacesGoneChildhoodFamiliarCompanionJoyfulBeing JoyfulSchool DaysFamiliar ThingsFamiliar Faces Author:Charles Lamb
“I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.” PeopleThinkingI CanProblemSchoolChildhoodDisabilityStubbornLearning DisabilityProblems In SchoolTell Me I Can T Author:Ann Bancroft
“My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.” KidsSchoolActingChildhoodNormalBikeStepdads Author:Demi Lovato
“I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.” EnoughSchoolMotherChildhoodTaughtTownsYeahGradesGrades In SchoolKent Author:Seth MacFarlane
“Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.” LittlesSchoolParentChildhoodMy FamilyGuitarCampsDragHobbiesPlaying Guitar Author:Bonnie Raitt
“You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.” PeopleThinkingGivingSchoolGamesLostChildhoodMissingEventsGiving UpHigh SchoolTradeAwfulMissing YouProm Author:Mary Lou Retton
“I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.” KnowsYearsSchoolCertainBeliefSidesPrayerSecretBrainKnow HowChildhoodPrayingBedKneesSundayFrightenedFiberDeep InsidePsalmsSunday SchoolAttendance Book:Every Day I Pray: Prayers for Awakening to the Grace of Inner Communion Source: Every Day I Pray: Prayers for Awakening to the Grace of Inner Communion
“My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.” FirstsFactsSchoolInterestMemoriesTeacherChildhoodShoesBoxesReformBirthdayPolishChildhood MemoriesCrackersFirst Birthday Author:Flip Wilson
“For my own children, I do want for them to look back and remember that it was me in the kitchen, that I was doing the packed lunches, that we were there on the school run, that we did take a bus. I want them to remember those things, because those are the things that I remember from my own childhood and that have been incredibly important to me.” WantLooksChildrenHas BeensImportantRunningSchoolRememberMy OwnChildhoodKitchenBusLunch Author:Kate Winslet
“My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.” FirstsPersonsSchoolSocialPoorChildhoodCollegeGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolMy FamilyPreparedSouthPsychologistGhettoFirst PersonEarly ChildhoodBronxSicilianPoor Family Author:Philip Zimbardo
“I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.” SchoolChildhoodPersonalitySpiralsDownward Spiral Author:Marcus Brigstocke
“We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.” KnowsShouldKindMayChildrenHelpingAgeSchoolHumanityReligiousSunChildhoodSweetFlowerIntellectualConsequenceActiveDawnSpontaneitySplendorMontessoriSuppressingVeneration Author:Maria Montessori
“I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.” PeopleIfsWellsSchoolYoungWonderChildhoodUniversitySeekingPatheticReally HappyReunion Author:P. D. James
“Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly.” TryingYearsHeartImportantBookHomeSchoolDesireNightReadingFoundLostPerfectHeardChildhoodReaderLoversLateSickLeavingNakedLunchPortraitsTeenageForbiddenLeaving MeNancyFountainheadTeenage YearsUlyssesPiningSurlyNancy DrewPerfect LoverHome Sick Author:Audrey Niffenegger
“But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get soggy at the memory of some childhood knickknack; nor do I want to deceive myself sentimentally about something that wasn’t even true at the time—love of the old school, and so on. But if nostalgia means the powerful recollection of strong emotions—and a regret that such feelings are no longer present in our lives—then I plead guilty.” IfsWantMindMeanFeelingsSchoolSufferingStrongMemoriesPowerfulEmotionOur LivesChildhoodRegretNostalgiaGuiltyDeceivingRecollectionOld SchoolTime LoveStrong Emotions Author:Julian Barnes
“Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.” YearsLongSchoolChoicesNamesFiveFourChildhoodNeededLateTwentiesUniversityAffairForgottenThirtyFive YearsTeensLeavers Author:Ian Mcewan
“Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.” LongSchoolUsedPayChildhoodCenturyLibraryExperimentsMarijuanaContrastProhibitionEarly ChildhoodSchool LibraryEarly Childhood Education Author:Nicholas D. Kristof