“In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching ever higher for food is, like so many Darwinian explanations of its kind, little more than a post hoc speculation." Hitching is quite correct, but he rebuts a fairy story that Darwin was far too smart to tell - even though the tale later entered our high school texts as a "classic case" nonetheless.” NeedsKindLittlesBookStoriesSchoolCasesHigherSmartHigh SchoolTalesPostsExplanationClassicFairyNecksReachingSpeculationGiraffeFairy Stories Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.” SchoolGirlCasesImaginePoetHigh SchoolStriveBeing The BestStriving To Be The BestBest Poet Author:Chad Harbach
“I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had done a great deal of reading. I suppose I was more at home in Greenwich Village than, say, any of classmates from Warsaw High School. But in any case, it was an overwhelming experience for me. It took me some time to begin to assimilate it.” DoneWholeHomeAgeSchoolReadingInterestDealsCasesFiveHigh SchoolDecidedWhole LifeVillageOverwhelmingClassmatesGreenwichGreenwich VillageWarsaw Author:Tom Robbins
“America's high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they're broken, flawed, or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools-even when they're working as designed-cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.” KnowsNeedsMeanMadeTodaySchoolAmericaTeachCasesStudentsBrokenHigh SchoolFlawedObsolete Author:Bill Gates
“I remember my first moment onstage was at a 4-H contest at the Pratville Junior High School cafeteria auditorium around 1965. I had my first electric, a Silvertone with the amp built into the case, and I won first prize.” FirstsMomentsSchoolRememberCasesHigh SchoolBuiltPrizeElectricContestsJuniorsJunior HighCafeteriaAuditoriumsHigh School JuniorSchool Cafeteria Author:Tommy Shaw
“I began seriously concentrating on music study after I entered senior high school. I went to a class in the arts section at the YMCA and learned music theory and composition. Today, there are many classes like this available, but this was not so much the case in those days.” ArtTodaySchoolClassCasesStudyTheoryHigh SchoolAvailableCompositionSeniorSectionsConcentratingMusic TheoryHigh School SeniorYmca Author:Isao Tomita
“After the NBA and ABA merged, players could come out after high school. Still, there were only a few cases prior to Kevin Garnett coming out in 1995, so Nike and the other companies were only involved in the college game.” StillsSchoolGamesCompanyCasesPlayerCollegeInvolvedHigh SchoolNbaComing OutKevinNikeAfter High SchoolLife After High School Author:Sonny Vaccaro
“Everybody's got a worldview, whether they know they have it or they don't. They might even get it when they are little tiny kids. Suppose they get it when they are in college, which is often the case, or in high school, whatever. Everything they learn after that or every thing they see after that, they fit it into that worldview. And they are making coherence of what's good, what's bad, what will work, what won't work, what's noble, what's ignoble, and so on... all through this filter.” KnowsLittlesMightKidsSchoolCasesCollegeFitHigh SchoolNobleTinyWorldviewFiltersCoherenceIgnoble Author:Jane Jacobs
“I'm a high school teacher. I'm someone who stumbles my way through, leads with my chin in some cases, leads with my heart in all cases.” WayHeartSchoolCasesTeacherMy HeartHigh SchoolMy WayChinsSchool TeachersHigh School Teachers Author:Justin Trudeau
“Top Trumps appeared to be a game in which you got cards, and the cards had a picture (in this case, of a horse), and told you all kinds of stats for that horse, how fast it was, how big it was, etc. Whoever had the better horse won both the cards. You repeated this until someone had all the cards. So, basically it was exactly like high school, except it only took three minutes. Which was really a bit more humane, if you thought about it.” IfsKindBigsSchoolThreeGamesBitsCasesMinutesTrumpHigh SchoolHorseAll KindsCardsEtcHumane Author:Maureen Johnson
“Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.” PeopleWantSchoolPresidentClassCasesHigh SchoolRanNutsDisturbedClass President Book:A Man Without a Country Source: A Man Without a Country