“Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.” PeopleWritingHandsSchoolBitsCan DoMistakeBrainSmartTrainingUniversityFinishedDirtyNonsenseEnginesBatsSurgeryTruckSmart PeopleAssemblingBrain SurgeryFinished School Author:Jasper Fforde
“I think we can rule out 'mixed brain dominance' as a cause of your poor performance at school, Charlie Brown" "Have you ruled out stupidity?" "Peanuts", Charles M” ThinkingSchoolCausesPoorBrainPerformancesStupidityBrownCharlieDominancePeanutsPoor Performance Author:Charles M. Schulz
“For me, I was in school and I pushed myself to be a good student, just because that's the type of person I was, but I never had a connection to any of it. I don't think my brain functioned in a way that was at its height, when I was in school. I needed something like art to really value the way my mind works. I wasn't reaching my full potential by sitting in a classroom and reading from a book. My mind didn't work that way.” ThinkingWayMindPersonsArtBookSchoolValuesReadingBrainStudentsTypeNeededSittingConnectionsHeightReachingClassroomFull PotentialGood Students Author:Misty Copeland
“I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.” ArtSchoolBrainDrawsSurgeonsAggravationArt SchoolFluentBrain SurgeonsSpanish Harlem Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“Like a brain surgeon who drinks a martini when he's not on call, the successful kids in your school may smoke pot on occasion, but they are not stoners.” MayKidsSchoolBrainSuccessfulDrinkSmokeOccasionsPotSurgeonsMartiniStonersBrain Surgeons Author:Bill O'Reilly
“Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn” HeartSchoolTurnsBrainBrokenLessonsPagesBent Author:Andy Partridge
“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
“Things go wrong for me, all the time, with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'm too old school a brain to be able to figure it out. I'm dumb. Anything that I have to attack with my thumbs, for any period of time, makes me feel stupid. So, I try to avoid it, as much as possible, to protect my thumbs.” FeelsTryingEnoughAbleSchoolBrainTechnologyStupidFiguresPeriodsProtectFamiliarDumbThumbsOld School Author:Johnny Depp
“As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school because I had learning difficulties or whatever. I would wish that they could just plant a chip in my brain so that I would know everything and not have to study.” KnowsTryingPersonsHardSchoolWishBrainStudyDadDifficultyPlantSevenMy DadEightChipsTutor Author:Dichen Lachman
“I definitely learned never to fall in love in high school because it just takes over your brain.” SchoolFallBrainHigh SchoolFalling In LoveOver You Author:Daren Kagasoff