“Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.” ChildrenSchoolNationsAbilityEffortSupportMealsNutritionPizzaCarrotsBroccoliCelery Author:Jared Polis
“I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.” SchoolFunSportsAbilityPassionatePlaying SportsFrisbee Author:Joel Silver
“Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.” FirstsSchoolLawBlackPresidentAbilityBuiltReputationBridgesDivisionReviewsHarvardIdeologicalLaw SchoolPublic ImageHarvard Law School Author:Mara Liasson
“All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any maths exams I'd get 100%. I just knew how to do maths and most people would hate it, but for some reason it just came.” PeopleReasonSchoolHateAbilityMy FamilyVery GoodMathMathematicalExamDorkDorky Author:Rebel Wilson
“I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.” KnowsWellsSelfSchoolBitsAbilityLowsAverageSelf Confidence Author:Peter Hollingworth
“I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.” IfsThinkingSchoolAbilityPlayerFootballCollegeHigh SchoolNflFootball PlayerCollege FootballNfl PlayersGood CollegeGood High School Author:Robert Griffin III
“Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.” KnowsYearsHumansEndsSchoolWinningAbilityEducationStudyFiguresStudentsPrizeCopies Book:The Art Spirit Source: The Art Spirit
“Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.” IfsYearsTodaySchoolAbilityMoneyEducationMillionsGreaterYouthCollegeHigh SchoolIncreaseEducateGraduates1960sGraduating High SchoolEnrollmentToday's Youth Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life more than anything else. And no one has taught us to love the two people who brought us into the world and educated us. Which is all the more reason to believe that we did not learn to love God as a result of outside instruction. In the very nature of every human being has been sown the seed of the ability to love. You and I ought to welcome this seed, cultivate it carefully, nourish it attentively and foster its growth by going to the school of God's commandments with help of His grace.” PeopleWorldLoveBelieveHumansHas BeensTwoReasonHelpingLightTruthSchoolEnjoyGrowthHuman BeingsAbilityResultsGraceLove YouTaughtOughtSeedsWelcomeEducatedGod LoveInstructionCommandmentsTaught UsAbility To Love Author:Saint Basil
“Education and training for all children to be equal in opportunity in all schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions of training in the professions and vocations in life; to be regulated on the capacity of children to learn, and not on the ability of parents to pay the costs. Training for life's work to be as much universal and thorough for all walks of life as has been the training in the arts of killing.” ChildrenHas BeensArtSchoolOpportunityParentAbilityWalksPayCollegeCostEqualTrainingCapacityUniversalInstitutionsKillingUniversityProfessionVocationThoroughWalks Of Life Author:Huey Long
“Fears to look bad in front of other people, to say something wrong, to be laughed at - all those fears deprive us of half of our abilities. This is one of the main school problems. That teacher understands it, who can teach students to study without fear of the teacher, without fear of classmates, and, the most important, without fear of a subject.” PeopleLooksImportantProblemSchoolAbilityHalfTeachStudyTeacherSubjectsFrontsStudentsLaughedClassmates Author:Simon Soloveychik
“The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.” ThinkingWisdomSchoolPoliticsAbilityResultsEconomyGenerationsWesternLiberalismComing Out Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into the public schools. Our churches are very strong in this nation and I think that's great and everybody should have the ability to worship as he or she sees fit. I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.” ThinkingShouldBelieveIdeasGovernmentSchoolStrongNationsChurchReligiousAbilityIssuesAtheismFitWorshipShould HavePositive AtheismBelieve In GodThroatVery StrongPublic SchoolThrust Author:Michael Newdow
“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
“The school of relationships is where you learn self-knowledge. I just don't know how you could learn it sitting alone in the desert on a rock by yourself. You have to see where you fail at it. And that confrontation with your own ability - "I was again not able to love" - those are the teachable moments.” KnowsSelfMomentsAbleSchoolAbilityKnow HowFailingRocksSittingDesertSelf KnowledgeConfrontationTeachableSitting AloneTeachable Moments Author:Richard Rohr
“During the time of Atlantis, members of the Mystery Schools discovered and developed specific concentration exercises that they found would radically increase and sharpen their innate psychic abilities.” SchoolFoundAbilityMysteryExerciseMembersIncreaseAncientConcentrationPsychicsInnateAncient EgyptAtlantisPsychic Abilities Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“The only thing we can depend on in life is that everything changes. The seasons, our partners, what we want and need. We hold hands with out high school friends and swear to never lose touch, and then we do.Change is the only constant. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being.” WantNeedsWellsHandsSchoolLife IsLosesAbilityDependsHigh SchoolSeasonsConstantPainfulPartnersWell BeingTolerateSwearThings ChangeNavigateHolding HandsWants And NeedsSchool FriendsHigh School Friends Author:Amy Poehler