“In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.” PersonsSchoolFacesMiddleWorstAdultsBiggerDamnDestructiveInsecureMiddle SchoolWorst TimesSlappingBigger Person Author:Nikki Reed
“There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.” YearsPlayBigsKidsSchoolYoungFourFeetPeriodsSixHigh SchoolAdultsYeahLawyer Author:Jason Segel
“Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.” WorldSchoolSeriousHigh SchoolAdultsPremisesUnspokenMicrocosmTime Of Your Life Author:Rian Johnson
“At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.” TryingWantedSchoolClearLuckyDirectorsAdultsDecided Author:Stephen Daldry
“The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult.” YearsDifferentSchoolRememberReadingHigh SchoolAdultsJuniorsJunior HighHigh School Junior Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler.” TryingMindChildrenSchoolPurposeForceAcceptingDisciplineAdultsPurposefulness Book:The Oxford India Tagore: Selected Writings on Education and Nationalism Source: The Oxford India Tagore: Selected Writings on Education and Nationalism
“Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million - more than one-quarter of all America - have not even finished high school.” YearsTodaySchoolAmericaEducationMillionsHigh SchoolAdultsPopulationFinishedQuartersMichigan Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.” BelieveArtImportantSchoolYoungEducationPositionAdultsCurriculumSchool Curriculum Author:Elliot W. Eisner
“Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.” ShouldKindChildrenSchoolCertainStudentsPoliticianAdultsRegardTypicalPupils Author:Anthony Daniels
“The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult fiction, and because of this it became a very successful book, and right now it's some sort of a standard title, it's read widely in many high schools in Spain, so I think, in a way, I was a victim of my own success in the field of young adult fiction, because it was never my own natural register. I never intended to write that kind of fiction, but I became very successful at it.” ThinkingWayWritingFirstsKindImportantBookStoriesSchoolYoungNaturalMy OwnFictionNovelSuccessfulMysteryFieldsAdventureRight NowStandardsHigh SchoolAdultsVictimYoung AdultTitlesAwardsSpainRegister Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I have been assigned low tribal status". And so, of course, they plot rebellion - accuse the existing tribal overlords of corruption plot, perhaps to split off their own little tribe in the savanna, not realizing that this is impossible in the Modern World.” WorldYearsHumansLittlesHas BeensSchoolCoursesRealizingBrainImpossibleModernLowsAdultsCorruptionPlotMapsRebellionSplitsTribesModern WorldSchool SystemSavanna Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education will think very, very seriously before it introduces this division and antagonism in our public schools.” ThinkingChildrenSchoolDifferencesAtheismConsciousAdultsSensitiveBoardsDivisionIntroducingPublic SchoolAntagonismBoard Of Education Author:John Dewey
“Young children were always so important to me. Adults should treat children with more respect. We should put more monies in our schools. I grew up on that side of the coin.” ShouldChildrenImportantSchoolYoungSidesGrewGrew UpAdultsTreatsMore MoneyCoinsYoung Children Author:Steve Wozniak
“Take a bunch of little kids to the beach and they all make art. Adults are too stupid to call it art, but it is art. They'll use their imaginations, make drama, make up characters, make pictures in the sand, they'll make up songs that no one's ever heard before. All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.” ThinkingLittlesArtCharacterUseKidsSchoolSongImaginationCreativeHeardStupidDramaAdultsBunchBeachSandLittle Kid Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie
“We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the Constitution forbade the establishment of a State church because they were opposed to religion. They knew that the introduction of religious differences into American life would undermine the democratic foundations of this country. What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education will think very, very seriously before it introduces this division and antagonism in our public schools.” PeopleThinkingMenChildrenMadeCountryStatesSchoolDifferencesChurchReligiousRaceAtheismHe ManConsciousAdultsConstitutionFoundationDemocraticPositive AtheismSensitiveBoardsDivisionEstablishmentIntroducingCreedsPublic SchoolIntroductionAmerican LifeAntagonismBoard Of EducationReligious Differences Author:John Dewey