“Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.” ThinkingCountrySchoolCrisis Author:Daniel Pennac
“I went to school, and I remember that you had to do these tests to find out what set you're in - how clever you are. I put down "Kit Harington," and they looked at me like I was completely stupid, and they said, "No, you're Christopher Harington, I'm afraid." It was only then I learnt my actual name. That was kind of a bizarre existential crisis for an 11-year-old to have, but in the end I always stuck with Kit, because I felt that's who I was. I'm not really a "Chris."” YearsKindSaidEndsSchoolRememberNamesFeltStupidTestsCrisisStuckCleverExistentialThey SaidBizarreExistential Crisis Author:Kit Harington
“you know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It's a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year.” IfsKnowsYearsFirstsPersonsBigsSchoolClassCollegePersonalityHigh SchoolFemaleCrisisFingersMalesRingsSevereSeniorSenior YearSemesterSaying NothingSign SayingsHigh School Class Book:Sacred cows-- and other edibles Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles
“The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.” WorldSometimesSchoolEarthSecretTeachOur LivesPlanetsLessonsCrisisBlockI've LearnedClassroomOur PlanetDressed UpDetours Author:Oprah Winfrey
“We need to do what I call visionary organizing. Recognize that in every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some people become immobilized. Some people become very angry, some commit suicide, and other people begin to find solutions. And visionary organizers look at those people, recognize them and encourage them, and they become leaders of the future.” PeopleNeedsLooksSchoolLeaderSolutionsCrisisAngrySuicideFishesCommitVisionariesOrganizerSchools Of Fish Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.” PeopleGivingSchoolLeaderFindingsCrisisFishesRecognizingSchools Of Fish Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“My daughter asked me when she came home from school, "What's the financial crisis?" and I said, it's something that happens every five to seven years.” YearsSaidHomeHappensSchoolFiveDaughterCrisisSevenFinancialMy DaughterSeven YearsFinancial Crisis Author:Jamie Dimon
“I had a very marginal understanding of what faith in God was growing up because, although I went to a Catholic school, without having parents who really were actively involved in faith there was no reinforcement of it. So, as a result of that I guess I just kind of thought that God was somebody that you put in a box and you put Him on a shelf and you called on him when you had crises.” KindSchoolParentUnderstandingResultsGrowing UpGrowingInvolvedCatholicCrisisBoxesFaith In GodShelvesCatholic SchoolReinforcement Author:Patricia Mauceri
“I did community theater and kids programs at professional theaters and plays at school and voice lessons for seven years. I stopped because it was so time-consuming. But then I realized that I had access to this world where I could go on auditions. And there wasn't too much of an identity crisis when I started acting professionally because I had been acting longer than I had been writing. It didn't feel new.” WorldFeelsWritingYearsPlayKidsSchoolVoiceCommunityActingToo MuchIdentityThis WorldGoes OnLessonsProgramTheaterCrisisSevenAccessI RealizedAuditionsSeven YearsConsumingIdentity CrisisTime Consuming Author:Tavi Gevinson
“The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs.” HelpingSchoolEnergyNationsChallengesIssuesCostCrisisReliefUnexpectedGrantsSecretaryAssistancePoorestSchool DistrictsEnergy Crisis Author:Joe Baca
“On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who are in crisis.” PeopleWorldDoeRunningSchoolSocialChurchCrisisAround The WorldWelfarePriestsShelterHomelessNunSocial Welfare Author:Anna Quindlen
“In every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some people become immobilized. Some people become very angry, some commit suicide, and other people begin to find solutions. And visionary organizers look at those people, recognize them and encourage them, and they become leaders of the future.” PeopleLooksSchoolLeaderSolutionsCrisisAngrySuicideFishesCommitVisionariesOrganizerSchools Of Fish Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“Let me tell you what would be a really, really great project for all of us. Why don't we start mentoring kids? Whether we're liberal or conservative, why don't we start going into the schools and giving the kids a sense of their own purpose, their own self-worth, their future, and what they can learn from us? You know, if we're mentoring kids together, we might actually begin to talk to one another again and listen to one another. We have a big crisis all over the country and in our state on drugs.” GivingCountryKidsSchoolTogetherPurposeDrugLet MeCrisisConservativeReally GreatMentoring Author:John Kasich
“I was able to draw a lot from my own childhood, my friends' childhoods as well and my daughters' friends who are like my children as well. They multiply all the time. So you can have everything and say I can get all this done and then late at night one of your kids have a freak out about school or an assignment you end up staying up til 3 in morning helping them through it. Or somebody gets sick or has a crisis.” ChildrenDoneHelpingKidsSchoolNightMorningChildhoodSickCrisisMy ChildrenFreak Author:Pamela Adlon
“Unfortunately, today's colleges and universities, and especially our business schools, do not offer pragmatic crisis management teachings.” SchoolTeachingCollegeManagementCrisisPragmatic Author:Steven Fink
“Too often, business schools teach academic crisis management theory, if that, but given the diverse and unique nature of crises, all the theory in the world will not help you manage an actual crisis unless you know the basic mechanics.” WorldHelpingSchoolTeachUniqueManagementCrisisManageAcademicDiverseMechanic Author:Steven Fink
“Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting. I grew up believing in it, and it worked for me in whatever my little personal high school crisis was, but it didn't last for me.” KnowsWorldBelieveLittlesEndsSchoolLastsGrewComfortGrew UpHigh SchoolBiggerCrisisCrashComfortingAlrightPads Author:Brad Pitt
“I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.” IfsThinkingShouldSchoolNextLeftEffortWeekStageFiguresCoupleKingsThirdsCrisisProductivityLegacyProductiveAdolescenceEasterLutherWrapsMemorialMemorial DayMidlifeMidlife Crisis Author:Chris Crutcher
“I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me that enjoyed hating school, and the drama of not going, the potential consequences whatever they were. I was intrigued by the unknown. I was even slightly thrilled that my mother was such a mess. Had I become addicted to crisis? I traced my finger along the windowsill. 'Want something normal, want something normal, want something normal', I told myself.” WantSchoolMotherHateDramaNormalConsequenceCrisisFingersMessEnjoyedWant SomethingIntriguedNormal Life Book:Running with Scissors: A Memoir Source: Running with Scissors: A Memoir
“That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.” WayWellsHas BeensWarHardUseHomeCareAgeSchoolJobsChoicesEnergyLostNationsEconomyViolenceFailingPlanetsUnderstoodEvidenceConsequenceHatredCrisisGreedHealth CareEach DayReachingCollectivesMidstShedNew AgeOur PlanetAdversariesIrresponsibility Author:Barack Obama
“Our lips met hungrily, and his clever artistic hands wrapped around my hips. A sudden buzz from my regular cell phone startled me from the kissing. "Don't," said Adrian, his eyes ablaze and breathing ragged. "What if there's a crisis at school?" I asked. "What if Angeline 'accidentally' stole one of the campus buses and drove it into the library?" "Why would she do that?" "Are you saying she wouldn't?" He sighed. "Go check it.” IfsSaidHandsEyeSchoolMetsKissingCrisisLibraryLipsPhonesCleverChecksCellsArtisticHipsBreathingHis EyesWhat IfBusCell PhoneCampusBuzzRaggedAngeline Dawes Author:Richelle Mead
“The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.” RealKidsSchoolEnjoyEducationBenefitsCrisisEducationalIcebergDropouts Author:Ken Robinson
“I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.” LifeInspirationalChildrenI CanInspirationSchoolHurtEducationResponsibilitySituationTeachPowerLearningTeacherStudentsElementsApproachCreatingToolsCrisisInstrumentsClimateResponseEducationalMoodHealWeatherConclusionMiserableTortureI've LearnedClassroomFrighteningJoyousPersonal ResponsibilityTeaching ChildrenTeaching And LearningEducation And TeachersHumiliateTeaching And EducationTeaching EducationTeaching LearningInspirational TeacherTeacher And StudentGreat TeachingTeaching StudentsTeachers Learning From StudentsLearning And GrowingEffective TeacherTeachers From Kids Author:Haim Ginott
“The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.” LittlesSchoolAmericaOpportunityRocksHugeHigh SchoolCrisisMarchLittle RockOpportunity In America Author:Vic Snyder
“Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich and poor. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media, and our so-called leaders lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions.” StatesCareSchoolLyingSocialCausesPoorCommonLeaderIssuesRichEffectsSecurityMediaCrimePoliticianDrugTaxesRacismSolutionsCrisisMessHealth CareWelfareGapsHealthcareUnemploymentSocial SecurityRich And PoorDependencyWelfare StateHigh Taxes Book:The Ten Things You Can't Say In America Source: The Ten Things You Can't Say In America