Quotes About Education

but you know the minute I graduated high school I never looked at a single math problem again, right? I send everything with numbers on it to my accountant, or I make Michael deal with it." "Great. Spoken like a true feminist

Saturday, December 12, 8 p.m., the Loft I WILL PASS ALGEBRA THIS SEMESTER, and NOTHING IS GOING TO DISTRACT ME FROM STUDYING FOR THE FINAL!!!!!!!!!!! Saturday, December 12, 9 p.m., the Loft I just had to go out and see the part where Bruce Willis throws the explosives down the elevator shaft, but now I am back to work.

But I guess that's just a reflection of how the educational system today, being so overcrowded and impersonal, makes it so hard for adolescents to break through the preconceived notions of one another, and get to know the real person underneath the label they're given, be it Princess, Brainiac, Drama Geek, Jock, Cheerleader, or Guy Who Hates It When They Put Corn in the Chili.

What to Do During Algebra O what to do during Algebra! The possibilities are limitless: There's drawing, and yawning, and portable chess There's dozing, and dreaming, and feeling confused. There's humming, and strumming, and looking bemused. You can stare at the clock. You can hum a little song. I've tried just about everything to pass the time along.

However much they're paying teachers these days, it is not enough. Middle-schoolers are animals.

No one wants to pursue anything creative anymore, because that's too risky. They may not get the kind of return on the financial investment they've made in their education that they think they should.

She went to the most expensive private girls' school in Connecticut. All they taught her there was how to fold doilies. Pointedly ignoring Alex, I said to John, I'm sure if you show me, I'll catch on. Excellent.John's gaze on me was warm. Then later perhaps you could show me how to fold doilies.

It's sort of weird to be hugged by your Algebra teacher. That's all I have to say.

Thrust into this dingy classroom we die like lampless moths locked into the desolation of fluorescent lights and metal desks. Ten minutes until the bell rings. What use is the quadratic formula in our daily lives? Can we use it to unlock the secrets in the hearts of those we love? Five minutes until the bell rings. Cruel Algebra teacher, won't you let us go?

Or there's peer tutoring. Oh my god. I'm tutoring the cutest little second grader right now. I totally taught her how to stay within the lines with her eyeshadow.

All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.

Grossman was NOT a man. (3) Mrs. Grossman was NOT Mr. Todd. Judy was the first to raise her hand. "Where's Mr. Todd?" "I'm sure Mr. Todd told everyone on Friday that he was going to a special teacher conference." "I wasn't here Friday," said Judy. "He's going to learn to be a better

Math-a-chu-setts.

Judy dumped all the markers, crayons, colored pencils, and pastels she had on the floor. Stink grabbed the first blue marker he saw and started to draw. "What are you drawing?" "Bats," said Stink. "Blue bats." "You're bats," said Judy. "People don't like bats." "But bats eat millions of insects," said Stink. "People should like bats.

It's never too late to understand and strengthen a mind.

think schools should assume responsibility for teaching kids how to learn, and parents need to have the assignment of teaching kids how to work!

It is vitally important that teachers and parents identify students who are slow processors and not consider them abnormal or deviant persons.

neurodevelopmental dysfunction is misread as a behavior problem

In the multicultural classroom, every culture appears to be taught except Britain's indigenous one. Concern not to offend minority sensibilities has reached the risible point where piggy banks have been banished from British banks in case Muslims might be offended.18

Until that moment, it hadn't occurred to me that my grades and test scores over the years were anything more than individual humiliations; I hadn't realized that one day all of them would add up and count against me.

This is college?' Schyler asked. 'or Downton Abbey?

books are passports to a deeper knowledge and understanding of the world

A little education, Eliza reckoned, could sometimes be more dangerous than no education at all.

He's brilliant—he could have made millions in Silicon Valley, but he'd rather teach and mentor students," she says. "Not enough of those kind of people out there.