“I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus.” GivingHeartSchoolCoursesJesusTrainingCatholicThanksGrammarGrammar School Author:Tony Orlando
“There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.” WholeStoriesRunningTodaySchoolBabyProducersEditorsGrammarPillsSchool EducationBoomersBaby BoomerGrammar School Author:Julie Walters
“Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly they make the same mistakes in their own speech, but they know-unconsciously, not as a set of rules they learned in school-when a sentence is incorrect.” KnowsSchoolLanguageMistakeSpeechSentencesNativeSpeakersGrammarSame Mistakes Book:Word Play: What Happens When People Talk Source: Word Play: What Happens When People Talk
“Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.” ThinkingMenSchoolBreakHabitApproachPlanningGrammarGood EducationGrammar School Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
“Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other words in a phrase or sentence that can create magic. Perhaps literally. The word "grammar," like its sister word "glamour," is actually derived from an old Scottish word that meant "sorcery." When we were made to diagram sentences in high school, we were unwittingly being instructed in syntax sorcery, in wizardry. We were all enrolled at Hogwarts. Who knew?” WayMadeSchoolCertainIndividualMagicHigh SchoolSentencesPhrasesGrammarGlamourScottishRadianceSyntaxSorceryDiagramsWizardryHogwarts Author:Tom Robbins
“Although our grammar schools are teaching a whole generation computer language to adjust to the technological needs of a Stage II [post survival-focused] society, we have neglected to teach this generation relationship language and conflict resolution skills to address the social and psychological needs of a Stage II society. And when it is taught, in countries like Germany, although called social competence it focuses on workplace teamwork - still on survival, breadwinner oriented work goals.” NeedsStillsCountryWholeSchoolLanguageSocialGoalTeachGenerationsTeachingStageTaughtSkillsConflictComputerSurvivalFocusedPsychologicalPostsGermanyAddressesResolutionTeamworkTechnologicalWorkplaceGrammarCompetenceNeglectedThis GenerationConflict ResolutionComputer LanguageGrammar SchoolBreadwinnerPsychological Needs Author:Warren Farrell
“I think the prospect of bringing back grammar schools has always been wrong and I've never supported it. And I don't think any Conservative government would have done it.” ThinkingDoneGovernmentSchoolConservativeGrammarGrammar School Author:David Cameron
“I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar , were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.” SchoolStudyTeacherSubjectsProudPeriodsDrawsMathematicsDrawingFacultyNeglectRecallsGrammarIndulgenceRetardedDistasteful Book:Let There Be Sculpture Source: Let There Be Sculpture
“I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.” MomentsSchoolRememberLiteratureTeacherHorrorGrammarOld SchoolMelbourneGrammar SchoolOld MusicMusic Teacher Author:Anthony Holden
“The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.” FirstsStatesSchoolChurchEducationOpeningGrammarMonopolyChurch And StateTrenchesGrammar School Book:Among my Books, etc Source: Among my Books, etc
“I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what she said made sense, and she parsed sentences on the blackboard and gave me, I'd like to think, some sense of English grammar and that there is a grammar, that those commas serve a purpose and that a sentence has a logic, that you can break it down. I've tried not to forget those lessons, and to treat the English language with respect as a kind of intricate tool.” ThinkingKindMadeSaidSchoolRememberPurposeLanguageForgetBreakTeacherTaughtLessonsHusbandHigh SchoolToolsLogicTreatsSentencesGradesGrammarEnglish LanguageIntricateFlorenceEnglish TeacherEighth GradeBlackboardEnglish Grammar Author:John Updike