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“The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.”

Thinking Want Needs School Teacher Subjects Consumers Shops Goods

Author:Daniel Pennac

“Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.”

School Religion Consciousness Subjects Infinite Various Fixed Personal Relationships Syllabus

Book:The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

“In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money.”

School Subjects My Favorite Math Favorite Subject

Author:French Montana

“My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.”

School Subjects Favourite Unnecessary Avoiding

Author:Prince Philip

“Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.”

“I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.”

School Subjects Computer

Author:Matt Frewer

“Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.”

Needs Should Has Beens Done School Sports Subjects Effects India Cricket Grassroots Subjects In School

Author:Gagan Narang

“School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek." They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.”

Should Children School Prayer Attention Subjects Students Mathematics Substance God Love Greek Faculty

Book:The Simone Weil Reader

Source: The Simone Weil Reader

“I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U.S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller.”

Knows Wells Facts School Known Study Subjects Theory Academic Well Known Introduction Delighted Intrigued Sellers Outraged Best Sellers Business School Literary Theory

Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“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.”

School Study Teacher Subjects Proud Periods Draws Mathematics Drawing Faculty Neglect Recalls Grammar Indulgence Retarded Distasteful

Book:Let There Be Sculpture

Source: Let There Be Sculpture

“Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy?”

“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.”

People Looks Important Problem School Ability Half Teach Study Teacher Subjects Fronts Students Laughed Classmates

Author:Simon Soloveychik

“I didn't wanna be looked at as no idiot, and I didn't wanna feel like I was uneducated, because I really stopped going to school at 15. I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit.”

Feels Littles Different School Bits Subjects College Little Bit Ignorant Idiot Classroom Uneducated Soaking Different Subjects

Author:Nipsey Hussle

“Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.”

School Form Poetry Education Teach Subjects Poetry Is

Book:Conversations with Nikki Giovanni

Source: Conversations with Nikki Giovanni

“Toddlers ask many questions, and so do school children - until about grade three. By that time, many of them have learned an unfortunate fact, that in school, it can be more important for self-protection to hide one's ignorance about a subject than to learn more about it, regardless of one's curiosity.”

Children Important Self Facts School Three Asks Subjects Ignorance Curiosity Protection Grades Unfortunate Toddler Self Protection

Book:The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart

Source: The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart

“My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.”

Problem Bigs School Subjects Logic Favourite Big Problems Algebra

Author:Mario Testino

“I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, Concerning the Nature of Things.”

Firsts Children Book School Subjects Mets Pages Rays Crystals

Book:The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Source: The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

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