- Nov 07, 2020
School Quotes
On learning, growing up and finding your own pace.
These quotes cover school in different forms: a childhood spent in Sunday school, being a late bloomer among faster-moving classmates, and skipping formal film training entirely to learn a craft directly. For lighter school-themed content, see our Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Flint, Michigan, I saw so many kids from my school end up in jail or unemployed, and gangs would hang out and cause trouble in my neighborhood. I had to learn how to protect myself, because it didn't feel like anyone else was protecting me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in my senior year of high school when I read 'Notes From Underground' by Dostoyevsky, and it was an exhilarating discovery. I hadn't known up until that moment that fiction could be like that. Fiction could say these things, could be unseemly, could be unsettling and distressing in that particular way, that immediate and urgent way.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a while I thought I would work in museums, so my first job after college was an internship at the 9/11 Museum. I quickly found out that I did not want to do that. So I signed up for culinary school, and directly following culinary school, I went to graduate school at McGill.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am 17 years old and a senior in high school. I am also, like thousands of other people living on this planet, sick.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents have always been very supportive. I didn't go to school because my home was my school.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The West Wing' was really important for me for a lot of reasons. It was the first thing I did when I got out to Los Angeles. I'd just finished school, and I was so naive.
- Private
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- Nov 07, 2020