“The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh. I think there's an element of that in there.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantTryingWellsSchoolLaughingElementsHarderCuteRelyShyHanging OutMaking People Laugh Author:Kaitlin Olson
“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
“Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant blunders. Entire schools have been founded on misinterpretations of certain aspects of the masters. Lamentable mistakes have resulted from the thoughtless enthusiasm with which men have sought inspiration from the worst qualities of remarkable artists because they are unable to reproduce the sublime elements in their work.” MenHas BeensFeelingsHandsInspirationSchoolArtistCertainMistakeQualityWorstMastersGeniusElementsWeaknessAspectEnthusiasmRemarkableSublimeExaggerationBlundersImitatorMisinterpretationPersonal Feelings Author:Eugene Delacroix
“School leadership has been identified as another critical element of student success, and subsequently enough resources and training should be provided to our school principals and administrators to allow them to create a strong ecosystem in our schools and support teachers and parents as well.” ShouldWellsHas BeensEnoughSchoolStrongParentSupportTeacherStudentsElementsTrainingResourcesCriticalPrincipalStudent SuccessEcosystemsAdministratorsSchool Principal Author:Shaheen Mistri
“I learned what education really is: the penetrating deeper and rising higher into life, as well as making continually wider explorations; the rounding of the whole human being out of its nebulous elements into form, as planets and suns are rounded, until they give out safe and steady light. This makes the process a infinite one, not possible to be completed at any school.” GivingHumansWellsWholeLightSchoolFormProcessHuman BeingsEducationSunPlanetsHigherSafeElementsInfiniteDeeperRisingExplorationSteady Book:A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory Source: A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory
“I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about your friends, a plot element if it's about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it's about John Keats.” IfsImportantCharacterSchoolNovelElementsDistinctionPlotGossipGraduatesSpeculationScholarshipGraduate SchoolSyphilis Book:Second words: selected critical prose Source: Second words: selected critical prose