schools

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b660d1e	Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)--Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world--a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious--surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.	conflict credulous curious democracy fable fossil glorious instructive literature mythic poetry primitive prose schools science science-vs-religion spectacle superstitious testing theology untaught	Walt Whitman
f47a5f9	To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.	education schools	Leo Tolstoy
08f36ac	Ignoring is what you are supposed to do with bullies, so they get bored and leave you alone. But the problem in school is that they don't get bored, because whatever else there is to do is more boring still.	schools	Paul Murray
2becaaf	I came to see the streets and the schools as the arms of the same beast. One enjoyed the official power of the state while the other enjoyed its implicit sanction. But fear and violence were the weaponry of both.	schools state violence weaponry	Ta-Nehisi Coates
062527b	Schools are made for the average. The holes are all round, and whatever shape the pegs are they must wedge in somehow. One hasn't time to bother about anything but the average.	intelligence learning schools	W. Somerset Maugham
96bb723	Fail in the streets and the crews would catch you slipping and take your body. Fail in the schools and you would be suspended and sent back to those same streets, where they would take your body.	schools slipping streets	Ta-Nehisi Coates
71d90fe	When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in spite of the instruction, not because of it. This seemed to make sense. He was ready to resign. Teaching dull conformity to hateful students wasn't what he wanted to do.	education how-teaching-kills-creativity schooling schools teaching university	Robert M. Pirsig
17440d7	The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was his job as instructor...to tell them what was good or bad. The whole idea of individual creativity and expression in the classroom was really basically opposed to the whole idea of the University.	education learning schools self-expression teaching university	Robert M. Pirsig
db1de94	School in itself is a microcosm of society. These kids bring a lot of baggage with them, and as teachers with 30 plus kids in your classroom you have to take the time to get to know them, and not just see them as people you have to teach. And if they want to learn they will learn, and if they don't want too then too bad. But you have to see them as your surrogate children. Charles Chuck Mackey, former vice principal and coach of R. M. Bailey Pacers...	children classroom education homeroom-teachers learning microcosm-of-society relationships school-principals schools students surrogate-children teachers	Drexel Deal
b8e6c9f	But my mother wanted her children to be educated by nuns and priests all dressed in black, the way it had been done down through the generations with her people. Taught by people who had a firm grasp of how big and awful the world could be.	life nuns parochial-schools priests religion religious-education schools	Edward P. Jones

b660d1e

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)--Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world--a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious--surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.

conflict credulous curious democracy fable fossil glorious instructive literature mythic poetry primitive prose schools science science-vs-religion spectacle superstitious testing theology untaught

Walt Whitman

f47a5f9

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

education schools

Leo Tolstoy

08f36ac

Ignoring is what you are supposed to do with bullies, so they get bored and leave you alone. But the problem in school is that they don't get bored, because whatever else there is to do is more boring still.

schools

Paul  Murray

2becaaf

I came to see the streets and the schools as the arms of the same beast. One enjoyed the official power of the state while the other enjoyed its implicit sanction. But fear and violence were the weaponry of both.

schools state violence weaponry

Ta-Nehisi Coates

062527b

Schools are made for the average. The holes are all round, and whatever shape the pegs are they must wedge in somehow. One hasn't time to bother about anything but the average.

intelligence learning schools

W. Somerset Maugham

96bb723

Fail in the streets and the crews would catch you slipping and take your body. Fail in the schools and you would be suspended and sent back to those same streets, where they would take your body.

schools slipping streets

Ta-Nehisi Coates

71d90fe

When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in spite of the instruction, not because of it. This seemed to make sense. He was ready to resign. Teaching dull conformity to hateful students wasn't what he wanted to do.

education how-teaching-kills-creativity schooling schools teaching university

Robert M. Pirsig

17440d7

The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was his job as instructor...to tell them what was good or bad. The whole idea of individual creativity and expression in the classroom was really basically opposed to the whole idea of the University.

education learning schools self-expression teaching university

Robert M. Pirsig

db1de94

School in itself is a microcosm of society. These kids bring a lot of baggage with them, and as teachers with 30 plus kids in your classroom you have to take the time to get to know them, and not just see them as people you have to teach. And if they want to learn they will learn, and if they don't want too then too bad. But you have to see them as your surrogate children. Charles Chuck Mackey, former vice principal and coach of R. M. Bailey Pacers...

children classroom education homeroom-teachers learning microcosm-of-society relationships school-principals schools students surrogate-children teachers

Drexel Deal

b8e6c9f

But my mother wanted her children to be educated by nuns and priests all dressed in black, the way it had been done down through the generations with her people. Taught by people who had a firm grasp of how big and awful the world could be.

life nuns parochial-schools priests religion religious-education schools

Edward P. Jones