“As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.” UseSchoolFormOpportunityStudentsActivityElementsMusicalStringsExposed Author:Chuck Mangione
“Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.” ThinkingWorldShouldSelfHelpingSchoolSelf EsteemStudentsBuildingActivityLowsIndependentSelf ConfidenceEsteemObedienceLow Self EsteemSchool Buildings Author:Alison Lurie
“When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.” SchoolActivityTheaterTeenagerSettlingExtracurricular Activities Author:Morgan Freeman
“Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.” WorldHumansChildrenHelpingSchoolCultureNationsDoorsDependsActivityIntellectualOur ChildrenProvidingCarpe DiemInvolvementCarpeArt And MusicArt EducationChildren EducationChildren And EducationMusic EducationMusic CultureMusic In SchoolsCulture And Education Author:Gerald R. Ford
“How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?” LongSchoolActivityAverageLondonHeelsInspectorsHead Over Heels Author:Charles Kingsley
“Having taught economics courses at private vocational schools and universities, I have always had a problem with GNP as a yardstick of prosperity. GNP is improved by increases in questionable activities such as consumption of cigarettes and the production of weapons. Moreover, a substantial increase in car accidents will favorably affect GNP because more funerals, hospital visits, car repairs, and new car purchases will result.” ProblemSchoolCoursesResultsBusinessCarTaughtActivityWeaponsEconomicsIncreaseUniversityProsperityProductionsAccidentsHospitalsFuneralCigaretteConsumptionQuestionableCar AccidentNew CarYardsticks Author:Ernie J Zelinski
“I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks. By the fourth week, I found it tedious. I got bored and grew restless. I had no other plan for a job, because from seventh grade on, I had planned on law. So I shifted my focus from classes to extracurricular activities.” FirstsSchoolJobsLawThreeFoundInterestingClassFocusPlansWeekGrewActivityBoredGradesFourthRestlessTediousLaw SchoolSeventh GradeExtracurricular Activities Author:Demetri Martin
“My belief is that sports in school is not an extracurricular activity.” SchoolBeliefSportsActivityExtracurricular Activities Author:Brian Kilmeade
“It's not enough to have a few women's studies courses. Why is it more important to study Paul Revere's midnight ride than it is Susan B. Anthony's 50-year effort to transform the face of America for women? When you're in school, most of the events you study are about men. Men's activities lauded and repeated over and over. What about us? What about commemorating the decades-long struggle for suffrage? Why don't we hear those stories over and over and over again. It's almost inconceivable for men to understand what it would be like to live without that constant valorization.” MenYearsLongImportantEnoughStoriesWould BeSchoolAmericaFacesCoursesEffortStruggleStudyEventsActivityConstantDecadesMidnightSuffrageSusan B Anthony Author:Judy Chicago