“Every coach always worries about accidents happening. I was very fortunate as a head coach that we were never in any accidents. But when you hear about them happening to other schools, it is very sad.” SchoolWorryHappeningsAccidentsCoachesFortunateVery SadHead Coaches Author:Fred Williams
“I went to a school that was founded on a lot of very radical ideals of how education should be changed. But what's happening to schools like that sort of all over the country is in economic pressure they're becoming more and more preparatory because that's what people will really pay the money for private schooling for now.” PeopleShouldCountrySchoolPayEconomicChangedBecomingHappeningsIdealsPressureRadicalSchoolingBecoming MorePrivate School Author:Ezra Miller
“In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.” LongSchoolWeekSummerHappeningsCollectionsPausesStretching Author:Sarah Dessen
“Nevertheless, no school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests. Parents have every right to understand what is happening to their children at school, and teachers have the responsibility to share that information without prejudicial judgment.... Such communication, which can only be in a child's interest, is not possible without mutual trust between parent and teacher.” IfsWellsChildrenSchoolParentInterestResponsibilityTeacherShareInformationCommunicationJudgmentHappeningsMutualPartnershipNeverthelessBehalfParents And TeachersSchools And TeachersMutual Trust Author:Dorothy H Cohen
“Mindset changes are not happening from change in legislation. Like desegregation. We legally got rid of legal segregation, but schools are still segregated. You can demand people have better math understanding, but it depends how you interpret math understanding, and what you want it for, and if you think everybody can and should have that.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantShouldStillsSchoolUnderstandingDependsDemandHappeningsShould HaveMindsetMathWhat You WantLegislationSegregation Author:Deborah Meier
“I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.” KidsSchoolHappeningsLonelyThings Happen Author:Anthony Hopkins
“Everybody wants to be a professional baseball player and, sure, as a kid, I wanted to do that. But once I got cut from my high school team, I figured there wasn't much chance of that ever happening. I'm still in awe of it.” WantStillsKidsWantedSchoolChanceCuttingPlayerTeamHappeningsHigh SchoolBaseballAweBaseball Player Author:Mark Buehrle
“If you look at the end of the movie [Monsegnor Lahzar], I give a lot of space to what the spectator can also imagine of what's going to be Bachir's life afterwards. So, there's the restraint part, and there's the fact that the story is happening in the school which allowed me to tackle all these subjects without making it too didactic, because in the school everything happens.” IfsGivingLooksEndsFactsStoriesHappensSchoolSpaceImagineSubjectsHappeningsThings HappenRestraintSpectatorsDidactic Author:Philippe Falardeau
“This deep insecurity has been going on for a while. I mean I picked it up in 2014 sitting in focus groups of women who were feeling terrified, not just about that ISIS was coming, but terrified that their children couldn't be safe at school, terrified about what was happening in Ferguson and other places.” MeanChildrenHas BeensFeelingsSchoolFocusGroupsSafeHappeningsSittingInsecurityTerrifiedIsisFergusonFocus Groups Author:Chuck Todd
“You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.” PeopleGivingSchoolTogetherBreakStudentsAuthorityHappeningsUniversityLocalsCouncilRepressionGet TogetherReins Author:John Lennon
“I think it's a scandal what has been happening in the school system so far as lower income classes. The dropout rates, the illiteracy rate, you know literacy in the United States was a lot higher in 1890 than it is now.” ThinkingKnowsHas BeensStatesSchoolUnitedClassUnited StatesHigherHappeningsRateIncomeLiteracyScandalSchool SystemIlliteracyDropouts Author:Milton Friedman
“Educators who have said, "We don't like that, so we'll continue to teach as if it's not happening," are just aggravating the gap between what happens in schools and what happens in the real world. Because of their personalities, or for cultural reasons, some kids might better express themselves through moving images and sound.” IfsWorldSaidRealReasonMightHappensKidsSchoolMovingSoundTeachPersonalityHappeningsGapsReal WorldEducatorAggravating Author:Seymour Papert
“I always felt strongly connected to the region where I was born. But after leaving school, the only clear thought I had about my life was to leave this provincial area and go to places where real life was happening.” RealSchoolFeltBornClearHappeningsAreasLeavingConnectedReal LifeRegionsLeaving School Author:Volker Bertelmann
“I always encourage people to start in their own personal universe, because sometimes we as parents start thinking about the big picture. How do I change what's happening in my entire school? And how do I do it in my community? And then you get overwhelmed and it's just like, "Forget it, I'll just stay here in my kitchen and wait." But, start small.” PeopleThinkingSometimesBigsSchoolUniverseWaitingParentCommunityForgetHappeningsKitchenOverwhelmedForget ItBig Picture Author:Michelle Obama
“I was lecturing at the Columbia Journalism School of Education. I asked them about what was happening to the Fourth Amendment. I said, "By the way, do you know what is in the Fourth Amendment?" One student responded, "Is that the right to bear arms?" It's hard to believe these are bright students.” KnowsWayBelieveSaidHardSchoolStudentsArmsBearsHappeningsJournalismDo You KnowAmendmentsFourthRight To Bear ArmsColumbiaHard To BelieveLecturingFourth Amendment Author:Nat Hentoff
“I saw this trend happening with the proliferation of guitar clinics and schools. And I was approached to do a camp in the past, but I wanted to have a good enough idea because most of them are just about jamming and learning. I decided I wanted a theme for each camp.” IdeasEnoughWantedSchoolPastSawsHappeningsDecidedGuitarThemeGood EnoughTrendsCampsProliferationClinic Author:Steve Vai
“My parents were kids when I was born. My mother was 16. My father was 17, and they got married in high school. And they split a few years later. When they split was when all that was happening also, and he - they were just coming into themselves. But they remained friends.” YearsKidsSchoolMotherFatherParentBornMarriedHappeningsHigh SchoolSplits Author:Mahershala Ali
“The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.” PeopleGivingIdeasRealSchoolFilmTroubleTeachingStudentsIndustryHappeningsFilm School Book:Interviews Source: Interviews
“An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.” FirstsSchoolLife IsActorsHappeningsSeriesLife Is LikeFirst Day Of School Author:John C. Reilly
“I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters, money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair-cut and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingDifferentMatterProblemSchoolFallHouseBornStudyCuttingStreetsDyingHairDrugThousandMarriedClothesHappeningsSickFalling In LoveLeavingIceGrievingGetting OldGetting MarriedExamUnnoticedRehabSkatesHair CutMoney ProblemThese StreetsBifocalsProblems Love Author:Jeffrey Eugenides