#high

I never once thought I wanted to be a soldier. I wanted to be a teacher. As soon as I left college, though, they sent me my draft notice, stuck me in officers training, and I ended up on the continent for twelve years. My life went by like a dream. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#dreams

When the actions becomes frequent than the words, success becomes heavier than the dreams. Do more, say less. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#actions #aim-high #dream-big #excellence #frequent

They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire! ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#education #elitism #higher-education #scholars #scholarship

Education, The less you think about it, the more it makes sense. ↗

— Alfanso Delaghetto

#education

educational television had a dramatic effect on relational aggression. The more the kids watched, the crueler they’d be to their classmates. This correlation was 2.5 times higher than the correlation between violent media and physical aggression. ↗

— Po Bronson

#education

They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, ↗

— Jane Austen

#education

...the state of Virginia had turned down twenty-one thousand women for admission to state colleges in 1970 while not turning away a single man... ↗

— Meg Waite Clayton

#women #education

Education is political. ↗

— Noel Castree

#education #geography #higher-education #political #politics

THE TRUTH ABOUT PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION • American fifteen-year-olds rank thirty-fifth out of fifty-seven developed countries in math and literacy. • 30 percent of public school students don’t graduate from high school. • Every day, 7,000 kids drop out of high school. • Of the 50 million children currently in public school, 15 million of them will drop out. • 25 percent of all public school math teachers did not major in mathematics or a math-related subject at a college or university. • Less than two-thirds of high school graduates are accepted to college every year. • One half... ↗

— Frank I. Luntz

#business

I’ve found newspapers only useful as kindling material for campfires. It’s been said that newspaper articles are written at a fifth grade reading level. If so, I can’t figure out why journalists would write something that the average high school senior can’t even read. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#high-school #journalism #journalists #media #newspapers