#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

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. ↗

— Joan Didion

#another #antithetical #because #book #down

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#asked #back #choice #first #grade

I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny. ↗

— Carrot Top

#class clown #clown #family #funny #home

In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#before #carson #class #few #goal

In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled. ↗

— Verne Troyer

#college #friends #high #high school #school

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#dominance #maintain #middle-class #norms #prevail

'High School Musical' is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from it. ↗

— Monique Coleman

#best #career #definitely #friends #great

She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons.... ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#school #life

I was made fun of a lot in high school because of the way I sound and the way I was. ↗

— Chris Colfer

#fun #high #high school #i #lot