“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
“Teaching high school, in addition to knowing one's subject matter thoroughly and being able to convey it to others, requires the grit of a long-distance runner, the stamina of a boxer going 15 rounds, the temperament of a juggler and the street smarts of a three-card monte dealer.” SchoolTeachingSmartHigh SchoolMathematicalTemperamentDealerStamina Author:Larry Cuban
“A lot of the turning points happen in high school and in college, and it defines a lot of how you see the world and how you decide to defend yourself from the world. Some people - their defense mechanism is, I'm really smart or I'm sexy or I'm the leader. And other people - they hide or they make jokes.” PeopleWorldHappensSchoolLeaderCollegeSmartJokesHigh SchoolSexyDefenseMechanismTurning PointsReally SmartDefense Mechanisms Author:Judd Apatow
“I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn't not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award.” BelieveWellsKidsSchoolSmartGoldUniversityFocusedMedicalCaliforniaAwardsBelieve In MeHonoredSan FranciscoMedical SchoolValedictoriansSmart Kid Author:Richard Carmona
“In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching ever higher for food is, like so many Darwinian explanations of its kind, little more than a post hoc speculation." Hitching is quite correct, but he rebuts a fairy story that Darwin was far too smart to tell - even though the tale later entered our high school texts as a "classic case" nonetheless.” NeedsKindLittlesBookStoriesSchoolCasesHigherSmartHigh SchoolTalesPostsExplanationClassicFairyNecksReachingSpeculationGiraffeFairy Stories Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“I did well in school. I had lots of honors, so I thought I was quite smart.” WellsSchoolHonorSmartRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius, and so I wanted to go to the hardest academic school I could to see if I was really as smart as I thought I was.” IfsWantedSchoolProcessStupidGeniusSmartHardestAcademicMy ThoughtsHyperThought ProcessI Was Stupid Author:Tucker Max
“The factory model of education is the wrong model for the 21st century. Today, our schools must prepare all students for college and careers-and do far more to personalize instruction and employ the smart use of technology.” UseTodaySchoolCareersTechnologyCenturyStudentsCollegeModelsSmartInstructionFactories21st CenturyUse Of Technology Author:Arne Duncan
“I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.” EnoughSchoolCausesRocksCollegeSmartHigh SchoolWeekendPunkTruckPunk RockResigned Author:Dave Grohl
“School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.” WayTwoDifferentEnoughWantedSchoolSmartIntelligentEducatedBoredDifferent ThingsMatureEntertainersTwo Different Things Author:Djimon Hounsou