“I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home.” IfsChildrenHelpingHomeSchoolPoliticsWonderBreakProgramTraditionChainsBrownBagsLinksLunchContinuingExpandingDemiseAmerican TraditionSchool Lunch Author:Charles Mathias
“Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those dreary pictures concocted out of tobacco juice according to time-honored formulas?” SchoolTraditionEndlessBunchFormulasHonoredJuiceTobaccoDrearyCarrotsBanality Author:Paul Cezanne
“People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized and read poetry; it was one of the things you were forced to learn. Now it has tiny role in school.” PeopleYearsSchoolRolesYears AgoTraditionMusicalTinyRhymeModernismPopular MusicOral Tradition Author:Campbell McGrath
“Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture we lose the content, because those artists were part of an ancient tradition. Our tradition changes rapidly, our schools of thought come to fruition quickly and decay again. We see differently.” TryingSchoolFormArtistLosesStudyPerspectiveTraditionAncientDrawingChineseConventionsDecayBrushesTextureFruition Author:John French Sloan
“The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter in our history... Two primary objectives of the residential schools system were to remove and isolate children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture.” ChildrenTwoHomeSchoolCultureInfluenceTraditionObjectivesPrimariesIndianTreatmentRemoveChaptersDominantSchool SystemFamily TraditionDominant Culture Author:Stephen Harper
“There wasn't a big tradition of comedy at Dartmouth. More than that, there wasn't really anything artsy going on in Hanover, or even in New Hampshire. The cool thing about the school is that there's nothing for people to watch, so if you were to do a play or a sketch or an improv troupe, it was always packed. There's nowhere else for anyone to go. But there was no comedy.” PeopleIfsPlayBigsSchoolWatchesComedyTraditionCool ThingsHampshireNew HampshireDartmouthTroupe Author:Mindy Kaling