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My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
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Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind… — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
When I was in Class II, we used to walk about 5 km. to school. I did not know of Olympics or… — Hima Das Copy Share Image
The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
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I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
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I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was… — Jenson Button Copy Share Image
I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, 'What kind of… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
I ended up switching over to journalism in college. A few weeks into freshman year, I realized that business school wasn't for… — C. J. McCollum Copy Share Image
I was quite straight-laced. I was quite academic until I was about 14 and then I went to boarding school where I… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
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Whether it's a kid in high school who doesn't have any friends and finds friends in my characters, or a guy in… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
Theatre aside, my penchant for the extended monologue began with my reading of Browning's dramatic monologues, in high school. My inclination to… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
To me it hit home when the US took away the pledge of allegiance from the kids in school. People that migrate… — Cristian Machado Copy Share Image
My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to… — Steve Wynn Copy Share Image
The first generation of school reformers I talk about - nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher - they are true… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I come from Oregon, which is this super-white state, so I didn't really have a lot of Asian friends in high school… — Nico Santos Copy Share Image
I went to a Christian School, and when I reached a certain age, I wasn't allowed to wear pants to school anymore.… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
In high school, I got into a speech class run by a nun who used to put on plays. She put me… — Ed O'Neill Copy Share Image
When I was little, we moved around a lot, actually. In second grade, I think I went to three different schools. We… — Emily Kinney Copy Share Image
Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
I was a rapper. Like every black kid I was attracted to rapping. I wanted to be like L.L. Cool J and… — Al B. Sure Copy Share Image
I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
Given the state of English schools in the 1970s, a national curriculum, Ofsted, regular testing, publication of performance results, have all helped… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go… — Tommy McCarthy Copy Share Image
There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“And being at school was awful in the beginning. Every new class I had was like a new chance for kids to… — R.J. Palacio Copy Share Image
The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
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The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it… — Charlayne Hunter-Gault Copy Share Image
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