- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
High Schools Quotes
These high schools quotes cover teaching teenagers, the surprising sameness of American high schools, blunt teenage honesty, and friendships forged despite moving schools.
High school shapes friendships, honesty, and ambition in ways people carry for life, and these quotes reflect on Education both inside and outside the classroom.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between acting jobs, I'd go visit my hometown and college town to see family and friends. But I would also teach acting, dance, singing, and audition techniques in high schools and colleges. I take great pride in all the survival jobs I worked, because I learned so much from them.
- Freshman Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
I changed high schools three times because my parents moved. I had one friend my freshman year named Miki Vukovich. Miki and I were the only skaters in our high school. He runs my foundation now.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got kicked out of four high schools just because people took issue with the colour of my skin. As if I could help the colour I was born.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I tell people I work to stop hazing in high schools I am almost always met with shocked expressions. 'High school? Really? I thought that was something that only arrogant frat guys do in college.' But it's true - as long as I have worked on preventing bullying in high schools, I have worked to prevent hazing.
- Censored
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between 1961 and 1982, 'The Catcher in the Rye' was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States. But all the talk about banning it made me rush out to find it.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
In elementary school, we all say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all.' In high school, we should say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, shut your mouth.' So that's what I'm telling high schools all around the world.
- Gone
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got kicked out of high school, went to 3 different high schools and summer school and extra night school just so I could maybe graduate and try to make it up, because I flunked pretty much my entire freshman year, mainly because I just never showed up.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The SAT plays an important role in helping admissions officers around the country sort out students, well-deserving students from 20,000 high schools that have different curriculums, different grading standards, and different ability to help students get ready for college.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I agreed to go on a date with a nice young man who was a former student of my uncle, who taught music in high schools and colleges. The nice young man took me to a party at his sister's, where I met people who introduced me to virtually all the elements of my future.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020