“I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.” SchoolActingHalfCrazyFootballGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolTownsTexasSmall Town Author:Jesse Plemons
“I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.” WellsAgeSchoolBornHalfTeacherFourEducatedAdmirableThirteenWell Educated Book:An autobiography Source: An autobiography
“Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.” GivingChildrenSchoolJobsYoungOpportunityGrowsHalfStruggleGrowing UpStreetsGoes OnPrimariesJust OneClassroomUnemployedYoung ChildrenOpportunities To LearnPrimary SchoolSecondary School Author:George Weah
“I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsArtRealSchoolHalfDrawsPreparedReal LifeSchoolingArt School Author:Dave Gibbons
“I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.” ThinkingYearsMadeHardSchoolLawChoicesThreeParentDecisionHalfCareersConsciousDecidedUniversityOccupationHarshHalf A YearSchool DaysCareers Choices Author:Lee Kuan Yew
“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.” IfsWritingLooksMeanDoeIdeasSchoolFormCertainThreeHalfPlansDoorsPaintingExpressionModelsDrawsRemainsDrawingPainterInteriors Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
“The state of our educational system is a disgrace to our country. We have an elementary and secondary school system in which close to half of the youngsters never graduate properly. It's a disgrace that there is more illiteracy today than there was 100 years ago.” YearsCountryStatesTodaySchoolHalfYears AgoEducationalOur CountryGraduatesDisgraceYoungstersEducational SystemSchool SystemIlliteracySecondary School Author:Milton Friedman
“Everybody knows - but no one wants to say - that the Democratic Party has become the party of special interest bigots and racial dividers. It runs the one-party state that controls public services in every major inner city, including the corrupt and failing school systems in which half the students - mainly African American and Hispanic - are denied a shot at the American dream.” KnowsWantStatesDreamRunningSchoolAmericaInterestPartyCitiesHalfFailingSpecialStudentsMajorsShotsDemocraticIncludingAfrican AmericanDeniedAmerican DreamDemocratic PartyPublic ServiceSpecial InterestsHispanicBigotsSchool SystemInner City Author:David Horowitz
“Fears to look bad in front of other people, to say something wrong, to be laughed at - all those fears deprive us of half of our abilities. This is one of the main school problems. That teacher understands it, who can teach students to study without fear of the teacher, without fear of classmates, and, the most important, without fear of a subject.” PeopleLooksImportantProblemSchoolAbilityHalfTeachStudyTeacherSubjectsFrontsStudentsLaughedClassmates Author:Simon Soloveychik
“Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.” TryingSchoolChristianOrderChurchReligiousHalfAtheismNew YorkPositive AtheismRuinsDogmaPublic SchoolChristian ChurchReligious Dogma Author:W. E. B. Du Bois
“Jamie Oliver's lunch is soup, half a papaya with lime, ciabatta with mozzarella and prosciutto. The dear boy is not sharing the same planet as the rest of us. Is this lunacy supposed to be a practical suggestion for a harassed housewife trying to drag her children off to school?” TryingChildrenSchoolHalfBoysPlanetsDearPracticalsSupposed To BeLunchDragSuggestionsSoupHousewifeJamieLimesLunacyMozzarellaPapaya Author:Terry Wogan