#schools

Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less? ↗

— William Glasser

#competence #competent #get #grade #help

I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#am #been #challenges #daughters #face

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. ↗

— Bono

#associates #commodities #corrupt #government #hoard

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system. ↗

— William Glasser

#hundred #improve #keep #long #nothing

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#am #any #i #i am #kids

I'm for prayer in schools. ↗

— Charles Evers

#prayer #schools

Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills. ↗

— Libba Bray

#boarding-schools #gemma-doyle #humor #libba-bray #beauty

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#democracy #dullness #failure #general #general welfare

There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#alongside #appreciate #cultures #different #different cultures

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#art #equally #impartially #only #schools