“When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll become the opposite of that, especially if I'm parked outside a high school party.” IfsKnowsWorldLittlesPersonsEndsSchoolGirlPartyHigh SchoolOppositesAdolescence Author:Jerry O'Connell
“Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his inability to understand the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is more likely, though, that those who interpret the Second Amendment to preclude an individual right to own guns are driven by their political agenda. Whichever the case, they do themselves no credit when they tell us that a simple, elegant sentence means the opposite of what it clearly says.” PeopleYearsMeanPersonsSchoolPoliticalPoliticsIndividualSimpleNumbersEducationCasesArmsBearsGunOppositesCreditSentencesDrivenAgendasAmendmentsElegantInabilitySecond AmendmentCorrelationDeteriorationPolitical AgendasAmerican Education Author:Sheldon Richman
“There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?” PeopleTryingHas BeensSchoolYoungTurnsStruggleCreativeTakenStudentsCollegeTrainingEnlightenmentTestsOppositesConstantTrainEducationalDebtPassingPassingsConformityTrapsInquiryImposingIndoctrinationEducational SystemConstant StruggleVocational TrainingPassing A Test Author:Noam Chomsky
“I'll have a sentence in my head that's kind of beautiful and interesting, but I'm not sure why or where it's coming from. So it's kind of funny, because when people point out patterns or themes, it's the exact opposite of my film school experience.” PeopleKindSchoolBeautifulFilmInterestingOppositesPatternsSentencesNot SureThemeFilm SchoolSchool Experience Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“You know, our fundamentalist friends dislike the teaching of evolution in schools because of the effect they feel it has on our view of our own special importance, while liberals insist that scientific and spiritual matters can be kept in separate compartments. On this point, I tend to agree with the fundamentalists, though I come to opposite conclusions about teaching evolution because I am convinced it's true.” KnowsFeelsMatterSchoolSpiritualViewsTeachingSpecialEffectsEvolutionOppositesImportanceAgreeConvincedConclusionDislikeFundamentalist Book:Facing Up Source: Facing Up
“Often kids in a computer lab learn about word-processing, but if they want to write an essay, they write it by hand. This is exactly the opposite of what you want them to learn. They're approaching the computer as just another abstract school subject.” IfsWantWritingHandsKidsSchoolSubjectsComputerOppositesWhat You WantAbstractEssaysLabsProcessing Author:Seymour Papert
“When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.” SchoolLeftActingDramaOppositesStuckComicPigeons Author:Rufus Sewell
“Sitting opposite Steven Spielberg, while he turns the pages of your script and talks about each scene as he goes, is about the best film school you can get.” SchoolFilmTurnsScenePagesSittingOppositesScriptsFilm SchoolBest Film Author:Matt Charman
“I felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than a decade before: I wanted to interrupt a career.” WantedSchoolFeltCareersOppositesDecadesImpulseGraduatesGraduate SchoolAmbivalence Author:Garth Greenwell
“Many kids think unless they go to one of these great Ivy League schools, which I was lucky enough to go to later, that they won't get the same kind of learning. But I learned just the opposite lesson; that my best teachers were not at Harvard University.” ThinkingKindEnoughKidsSchoolTeacherLessonsLuckyOppositesUniversityLeagueHarvardIvyBest TeacherIvy LeagueHarvard UniversityIvy League Schools Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“Athletes often start life at the opposite end of the wealth and prestige spectrum, but as soon as they exhibit an unusual talent for swinging a bat or sinking a free-throw they may find that the rules have been suspended for them. They are waved through school and into the pros, and incidents of bad behavior are overlooked or covered up.” MayHas BeensEndsSchoolWealthTalentBehaviorOppositesAthleteCoveredUnusualBatsIncidentsSpectrumExhibitsSinkingPrestigeOverlookedSuspendedBad BehaviorFree ThrowCovered Up Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.” Has BeensArtSchoolPastFormFoundGrowsDemocracyInfluenceProveOppositesTheology Book:Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose
“I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.” EndsSchoolFilmImaginationProductsOppositesFinishedLimitationMy ImaginationFilm SchoolLifeboats Author:Brian K. Vaughan
“Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught in business schools. This mentality needs to be introduced as a leadership and performance-enhancing tool.” NeedsSchoolCultureCreativityTaughtCreatingToolsOppositesPerformancesMentalityBurnoutBusiness SchoolTrailblazing Author:Arianna Huffington