#cho

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#average #career #i #medium #nothing

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#enlightenment #especially #reason #schools #science

I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a lousy anchor. We would love to renew your contract and have you be our lead reporter here, but we're not going to have you anchor.' ↗

— Elizabeth Vargas

#contract #every #going #here #i

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#confirmed #i #prep #school

In fact, I think that our society expects schools to get students to the point where they do things only for outside rewards. People who perform tasks for their internal reasons are hard to control. Now, I don't think teachers get up in the morning and say to themselves, 'I', going to go to school today and take away all those young people's internal motivations' ...but that's exactly what often happens. ↗

— Kirsten Olson

#schools #wounded-by-school #education

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#did #high #high school #i #knew

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#person #public #public schools #publicly #schools

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#art #art school #because #deal #great

What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do. ↗

— Danny DeVito

#basically #because #chose #dark #different

When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music. ↗

— Dan Deacon

#immerse #just #listening #making #music