“For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that's easy to manage.” WantReasonSchoolEasyOur LivesAmbitionTrainingFairsManagementPopulationEndlessManageDomainFoulEvery SecondExpendituresManagement Systems Author:John Taylor Gatto
“We read our mail and counted up our missions In bombers named for girls, we burned The cities we had learned about in school Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among The people we had killed and never seen. When we lasted long enough they gave us medals; When we died they said, "Our casualties were low." They said, "Here are the maps"; we burned the cities.” PeopleLongSaidEnoughBodySchoolGirlCitiesOur LivesLowsDiedLaysMissionsMapsMailBurnedThey SaidMedalCasualtiesBombers Author:Randall Jarrell
“I met this amazing person, and we realized we had very similar views on how we wanted to live our lives. It’s happened quickly, with so many children. Yesterday, picking up the kids from school, Brad turned around in the car, and there were three of them. He couldn’t stop laughing. We love them and are having a great time.” ChildrenPersonsKidsWantedSchoolThreeViewsLaughingOur LivesHappenedCarMetsYesterdayGreat TimesBradAmazing Person Author:Angelina Jolie
“Fate often allows a future to take shape with no regard for our expectation, plan, or readiness. Fate's skillful editing of our life choices is like the careful grooming of lads on their first day of school: combed, polished, scrubbed, newly dressed, and glowing too. This is how we become ready for our life lessons.” FirstsSchoolChoicesOur LivesFatePlansReadyLessonsShapesExpectationsRegardCarefulLife LessonEditingGlowingReadinessPolishedSkillfulLife ChoicesLadGroomingFirst Day Of School Book:The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know Source: The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know
“The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.” WorldSometimesSchoolEarthSecretTeachOur LivesPlanetsLessonsCrisisBlockI've LearnedClassroomOur PlanetDressed UpDetours Author:Oprah Winfrey
“We have the ability to choose, we are God's higher form of creation, we surpass all other forms of life and we don't use the mental faculties we've been given. We don't even understand what we are capable of doing. School doesn't teach us anything about ourselves. So the more we learn about ourselves, the more we take control over our life.” UseSchoolFormGivenAbilityTeachOur LivesCreationHigherCapableFacultyTake ControlAbility To Choose Author:Bob Proctor
“I hated school . . . I freaking hated it. The fact is that it revolved around something you didn't have access to. If you weren't on the football team, if you were in the band, you were a leper. When people say those were the best years of our lives, I want to scream.” PeopleIfsWantYearsFactsSchoolOur LivesTeamFootballBandAccessHatedScreamFootball TeamBest YearLeper Author:Trent Reznor
“But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.” BookSchoolEnjoyOur Lives Author:Charles Clarke
“The opportunities, income, schools facilities, the basic income support that the government provides or any of these things .. public transport arrangements we have.. all these are part of the way our lives and freedoms are effected.” WayGovernmentSchoolOpportunitySupportOur LivesIncomeArrangementsFacilityTransport Author:Amartya Sen
“What we do with our lives every day, whether at school, a desk job, or keeping the home in order, is our most basic opportunity to glorify God. That's what your role in His story looks like day in and day out. Instead of waiting to be offered a new role, play the current one well.” WellsLooksPlayStoriesHomeSchoolJobsOrderOpportunityWaitingRolesOur LivesCurrentsDesksGlorifyLive Every Day Author:Trip Lee
“What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.” HappensSchoolLife IsOur LivesHigh SchoolFaultsAtheistCrowdsConsensusCrutches Author:Gillian Anderson
“Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.” PeopleThinkingSchoolSpeakLanguageTeacherOur LivesGradesPoetry IsScarePassagesEcstaticSchool TeachersGrades In SchoolReciting Author:Erica Jong
“There's nothing small or inconsequential about our stories. There is, in fact, nothing bigger. And when we tell the truth about our lives - the broken parts, the secret parts, the beautiful parts - then the gospel comes to life, an actual story about redemption, instead of abstraction and theory and things you learn in Sunday School.” FactsStoriesSchoolBeautifulSecretOur LivesTheoryBrokenBiggerRedemptionTelling The TruthSundayAbstractionInconsequentialSunday School Author:Shauna Niequist
“I was more tuned into the assassinations, the riots that were going on, like in Watts, and, in fact, my summer before my senior year in high school I went on the Experiment in International Living to Sweden, yes, with a group of students , you know, leisurely discussion over the summer about, you know, where we were going to go with our lives, and how did you how did, you know, being a born-again Christian mesh with being, you know, a socialist from New York.” KnowsYearsFactsSchoolChristianBornOur LivesGroupsNew YorkStudentsSummerHigh SchoolInternationalExperimentsDiscussionSocialistSeniorRiotAssassinationBorn AgainSwedenDid You KnowMeshSenior Year Author:Jill Stein