“The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.” SchoolGoes OnNobleEnterpriseCan NotIndispensableDisseminationUseful Knowledge Author:Albert J. Nock
“I took Spanish in high school and I didn't do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.” WellsLittlesSchoolBitsTeacherGoes OnLittle BitHigh SchoolDiscouraged Author:Tyler Posey
“I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.” SchoolStuffGoes OnDramaTrainingInternalsMakeupChicagoCakeWardrobeIcingGoodmanIcing On The Cake Author:Michael Rooker
“Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.” PeopleCountryStatesSchoolLevelsLeaderPositionProduceGoes OnDegreesEducationalDepartmentPublic SchoolHarvardHigh LevelAdministrators Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.” GivingChildrenSchoolJobsYoungOpportunityGrowsHalfStruggleGrowing UpStreetsGoes OnPrimariesJust OneClassroomUnemployedYoung ChildrenOpportunities To LearnPrimary SchoolSecondary School Author:George Weah
“I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school.” SchoolFilmGoes OnFilm SchoolBusiness SchoolNyu Author:Alexa Vega
“The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.” SchoolIndividualGoalEducationTeachingBuildingGoes OnUltimateConvictionBurdenEducationalPursuitOddGet OverUltimate GoalEducational SystemSchool Buildings Author:John W. Gardner
“Let them all believe whatever they want. It is pointless to go on radio shows and wrangle over mystical claims. However, such claims must not be imposed on captive children in government-owned schools. That is prohibited by the separation of church and state, a core principle in the First Amendment in America's Bill of Rights.” WantFirstsBelieveChildrenStatesShowsGovernmentSchoolAmericaChurchPrinciplesRightsAtheismGoes OnClaimsBillsRadioCoreSeparationAmendmentsMysticalFirst AmendmentChurch And StatePointlessSeparation Of Church And StateCaptivesBill Of Rights Author:James A. Haught
“I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and its a very limited time. I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk, I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I dont go running or hard hiking.” WritingI CanTwoHardHomeRunningKidsSchoolHoursWalksRaceSeriousGoes OnCoupleHikingLimited Time Author:Maria Semple
“I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.” WayTryingHelpingSchoolFilmWishStudentsGoes OnAdmireFilm School Author:Agnes Varda
“There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.” KnowsYearsHappensSchoolFireTeacherTeachingGoes OnLosingGloryCoachesAccountabilityPublic SchoolSchool System Author:Ross Perot
“Americans are wonderfully courteous to strangers, yet indiscriminately shoot kids in schools. They believe they are masters of the world, yet know nothing about what goes on outside their shores. They are people who believe the world stretches from California to Boston and everything outside is the bit they have to bomb to keep the price of oil down. Only one in five Americans hold a passport and the only foreign stories that make their news are floods, famine, and wars, because it makes them feel good to be an American. Feeling good to be American is what they live for.” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsBelieveWarStoriesFeelingsKidsSchoolBitsFiveMastersGoes OnNewsStrangerOilFeel GoodCaliforniaBombsShoreFloodBostonFaminePassportsCourteous Author:Brian Reade
“I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.” PeopleThinkingYearsBelievePersonsDifferentReasonSchoolChangeLevelsSeriousGoes OnSixRateDivorceMentalityHittingAgeingPubertyDivorce Rates Author:Randy Houser
“Profound question is how do you measure the non-skills component of what goes on in schools: values, curiosity, critical thinking, and so on. That's very tough. Maybe everything worthwhile can't be measured.” ThinkingSchoolValuesGoes OnSkillsToughProfoundCuriosityCriticalWorthwhileComponentsCritical Thinking Author:Nicholas Lemann
“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
“But, how many times can you get exactly what you want, when you want it? Not very often. So, why not have it with entertainment? That's what it's fun. It's fun! I find that's how I'm watching, more and more. My kids go on binges, and I get sucked in. And then, it's the middle of the night and they're late for school, the next day.” WantKidsSchoolNightNextFunMiddleGoes OnLateEntertainmentWhat You WantWhy NotNext DayMiddle Of The NightBinge Author:Jenji Kohan
“My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.” PeopleThinkingMadeAbleSchoolMotherWishParentTeacherWonderfulCollegeGoes OnHigh SchoolHillsAffluentDiplomaExtremityAppalachiaWonderful TeacherHigh School Diploma Author:Dwight Yoakam
“I'd done two years' worth of extra work, and all my friends who I would go on auditions with went to school for acting. These were kids who knew when they were 14 years old that this was what they wanted to do with their lives, and they prepared for it, and they're getting canned at every audition.” YearsTwoDoneKidsWantedSchoolActingGoes OnMy FriendsPreparedExtrasTwo YearsAuditionsExtra Work Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“When I was in school, my former roommate went through hazing. I heard the stories, but I don't think I've seen a movie that captures the stuff that goes on.” ThinkingStoriesSchoolStuffHeardGoes OnFormerCaptureRoommateHazing Author:Nick Jonas
“I used to do drugs in high school. I've been living in L.A. for almost 10 years, and shortly after I arrived I cleaned up pretty much. Stuff goes on on the set, stuff goes on at parties.” YearsSchoolUsedStuffPartyGoes OnDrugHigh School Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“The whole intelectual culture has a filtering system, starts as a child in school. You're expected to accept certain beliefs, styles, behavioral patterns and so on. If you don't accept them, you are called maybe a behavioral problem, or something, and you're weeded out. Something like that goes on all the way through universities and graduate schools. There is an implicit system of filtering, which has the, it creates a strong tendency to impose conformism. Now, it's a tendency, so you do have exceptions, and sometimes the exceptions are quite striking.” IfsWayChildrenSometimesWholeProblemSchoolCertainCultureBeliefStrongAcceptingStyleGoes OnUniversityPatternsExpectedTendenciesExceptionGraduatesImplicitGraduate School Author:Noam Chomsky
“That's what we do on "MasterChef," on "Junior." No school teachers, no parents, let it go. You're going to go on a challenge. We're going to go to hell and back, and we're going to have some bumps.” SchoolParentChallengesHellTeacherGoes OnLet It GoJuniorsBumpsGo To HellSchool TeachersHell And BackMasterchef Author:Gordon Ramsay
“I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, "What did they teach you?" And she said, "They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room." I'm happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I've never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I'm told to say.” SaidSchoolAmericaGirlRoomsTeachLaughingTaughtGoes OnDramaEmptyEnglandScreensBurningCandleEmpty RoomsCandles Burning Author:Quentin Crisp
“Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.” ChildrenSchoolFatherGamesDifferencesSonGoes OnDadDaughterProgramBallsYour ChildrenDaddyPicnicsFather And SonBall GamesRecitals Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.” FirstsSchoolGoes OnGenderConformKindergartenConformistPreschool Author:Dan Savage
“I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever.” ThinkingArtSchoolGoes OnTendenciesArt SchoolBallgame Author:Lewis Black
“There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.” SchoolGoes OnVocabularyVocabulary WordsMemorization Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson