When you’re going you think it’s a big deal, but when it’s over nobody really thinks it was great unless they’re beered up. High school isn’t a very important place. If we never fell down, we would never walk. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Heinrich HeineĪs long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him ‘Doctor.’ Abe Lemons Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems. Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. Even though I was the only one who voted, it still felt terrific being nominated. In high school I got voted most likely to get voted for something. I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the ones who are the most interesting now and the ones who were popular are dull and boring. Life gets really simple once you cut out all the bull they teach you in school. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did. You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Sunday school: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. Ronald ReaganĪ teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. Jack Herbertīut there are advantages to being elected President. My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had, so he sent me to a girls school. My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section. True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. My school days were the happiest days of my life which should give you some indication of the misery I’ve endured over the past twenty-five years. Edgar Watson HoweĮducation costs money, but then so does ignorance. No wonder the teacher knows so much she has the book. You send your child to the schoolmaster, but ’tis the schoolboys who educate him. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends. In grade school I was smart, but I didn’t have any friends. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Show me the man who enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore. When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn’t stop until you get to school. It’s easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. Albert EinsteinĮducation is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. Bill VaughanĮducation is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong. Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson. In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test.
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