School Quotes - Page 11

I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin.

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

If you desire it, you must punish yourself for the sake of learning, seek every advantage in keeping up with the other clerks and in excelling them. You must study with the fervor of the blessed or the cursed.

Train your brain to gain.

It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that is why meaningful student involvement is vital to school improvement.

It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.

Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.

The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what’s easy and safe, and (3) become sophisticated thinkers, the more we should do everything possible to help them forget about grades.

We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.

Humility: The most quietly profound professor in the university of Christian living.

No one answered. You could hear the light buzzing over us. I love that sound. It means school isn't working, that the teachers are losing the battle.

School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn" - learning itself - by years.

worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).

Should I have a doughnut or my disgusting cardboard?” asked Gwynn, as she drew up languidly before me at a study table in a bookstore on State Street, raising a puffed rice cake in the air.
My eyes narrowed attentively at her face, but as I hesitated, she announced eagerly, “Disgusting cardboard it is!

pencils racing across paper, a sound I like." Marisol