“I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.” WritingYearsSchoolLanguageTeachStudentsTaughtHigh SchoolAppreciateSchool English Author:Mark Takano
“I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what she said made sense, and she parsed sentences on the blackboard and gave me, I'd like to think, some sense of English grammar and that there is a grammar, that those commas serve a purpose and that a sentence has a logic, that you can break it down. I've tried not to forget those lessons, and to treat the English language with respect as a kind of intricate tool.” ThinkingKindMadeSaidSchoolRememberPurposeLanguageForgetBreakTeacherTaughtLessonsHusbandHigh SchoolToolsLogicTreatsSentencesGradesGrammarEnglish LanguageIntricateFlorenceEnglish TeacherEighth GradeBlackboardEnglish Grammar Author:John Updike
“When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.” WritingSchoolLanguageHigh SchoolSophisticatedSchool English Author:Daniel Alarcon
“John Hughes made a certain type of high school movie, and then it stayed static for 30 years. The only thing that changed was that maybe it was found footage or maybe it's a little snarkier, but the actual language that kids live in today, like with texting, motion graphics, the internet and that whole hashtag culture doesn't exist in movies today. It's left on the floor.” YearsLittlesMadeWholeKidsTodaySchoolCertainCultureFoundLeftLanguageChangedTypeInternetHigh SchoolStaticTextingHashtagsHigh School Movie Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“In Europe, kids learn at least four languages before they're out of high school. But our education system is so underfunded, they go to school to buy heroin and an AK-47.” KidsSchoolLanguageFourHigh SchoolEuropeEducation SystemHeroinAk 47 Author:Eddie Griffin
“I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher at Lincoln High School in Dallas. So, I was already familiar with the N-word and the brutality of slavery. What I was drawn to was the love story between Django and Broomhilda and how he defends and gets the girl in the end. I thought it was just an amazing and courageous project.” PeopleEndsStoriesSchoolGirlLanguageTeacherViolenceProjectsHigh SchoolSlaveryReactionsLove StoryFamiliarKneesCourageousBrutalityJerkDallasStepfathersHistory TeacherDjangoKnee Jerk Reactions Author:Jamie Foxx
“But lots of emerging racial tensions in California have nothing to do with whites: Filipinos and Samoans are fighting it out in San Francisco high schools. Merced is becoming majority Mexican and Cambodian. They may be fighting in gangs right now, but I bet they are also learning each other's language.” MaySchoolFightingLanguageBecomingRight NowHigh SchoolMajorityCaliforniaTensionGangMexicanSan FranciscoEmergingFilipinoRacial Tension Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Language is the primary way we communicate with each other, and we have really strong feelings about what words mean, and about good language and bad. Those things are really based on sort of an agglutination of half-remembered rules from high school or college, and our own personal views on language and the things we grew up saying, the things we grew up being told not to say.” MeanFeelingsSchoolLanguageStrongCollegeHigh SchoolCommunicateStrong Feeling Author:Kory Stamper
“If I reformed school, I would do two things: We can improve a child's IQ by three percent by teaching them a foreign language by seven-years-old. We shouldn't be waiting until high school when they are neurologically not ready to learn it. Second, we emphasize reading too young.” SchoolReadingLanguageWaitingTeachingHigh SchoolNot ReadyForeign Language Author:Paul Orfalea
“Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.” YearsSchoolYoungLanguageTeacherGroupsJourneyTravelHigh SchoolFollowingRussiaFunny TravelJuniorsCampingJunior YearHigh School JuniorJunior Year Of High School Author:Peter Agre