Turn one school from a robot factory into a cradle of heroes, and the very face of education on earth will change.
This was school, and everything he'd feared. Barren, jarring, stale, always lonely and never alone. He had known it would be bad, and it was.
My nickname at school was ‘Gooey’.
I do bad at school because sometimes I think when I should be learning.
Frankly, I find it to be a waste of my time. I could learn much more from reading, and school impedes my ability to read. And the tests! The ability to regurgitate facts does not make one intelligent any more than the ability to regurgitate one's meal makes him a fountain!
We learned more from a three-minute record, baby, than we ever learned in school.
The ideas of beawolf ain’t gonna go nowhere.” <—My first complete sentence to an MLA style paper about Beowulf. My English teachers in high school changed and edited my trajectory with my writing and with . . . my life. Writing is a process like life. We’re all in a process of becoming. Remember that. Make mistakes and keep your voice. And, take the guidance along the way.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
As long as you have life, learn all you can.
Never let schooling interfere with education.
Gift last for few days, guidance last forever.
Undistracted by schooling, one studies best during vacations
As a teacher, no matter what grade level, no matter how hard you try to engage the entire class or implement the suggestions above, you will still encounter “that one kid” who will get under your skin: the class clown, the smart-ass, the student who acts like you are pulling his teeth every time you ask him to do something, the kid who always has to say “this is stupid.” They are just part of the clientele base we serve and they can drive us to drinking (figuratively speaking…and sometimes literally). Please remember that you are the adult. The negativity or resistance “that one kid” radiates can be handled in a way that does not disturb the class structure.
One of my goals is to educate you by calling your attention to things that others deem unworthy of attention.
Generally, education is to curiosity what circumcision is to the foreskin.
Institutionalized education is the door and money is the key.
You can homeschool whether you loved school, hated school, or were somewhere in the middle.
Reading is refreshing.
KODO SAWAKI ~ To practice the buddha way is not to let our minds wander but to become one with what we’re doing. This is called zanmai (or samadhi) and shikan (or “just doing”). Eating rice isn’t preparation for shitting; shitting isn’t preparation for making manure. And yet these days people think that high school is preparation for college and college is preparation for a good job.
As a boy of 14, at night under the bed sheets, I secretly travelled all around the world, with an ear glued to my shortwave receiver. That way I learned more than during the day at school. (From: Kinderpraat)
