#school

The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas? ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#back #forth #gas #go #how

Don't forget to give Neville our love!' Ginny told James as she hugged him. 'Mum! I can't give a professor love!' 'But you know Neville-' James rolled his eyes. 'Outside, yeah, but at school he's Professor Longbottom, isn't he? I can't walk into Herbology and give him love.... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#deathly-hallows #epilogue #harry-potter #hogwarts #humor

Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#flirting #high-school #sex #sexy #dreams

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. ↗

— B.F. Skinner

#schools #education

Research experts want to know what can be done about the values of poor segregated children; and this is a question that needs asking. But they do not ask what can be done about the values of the people who have segregated these communities. There is no academic study of the pathological detachment of the very rich... ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#poverty-wealth #school-reform #segregation #education

Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth. ↗

— Susan Eaton

#poverty #school-reform #education

We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep. ↗

— George Pelecanos

#schooling #education

When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable. ↗

— Elizabeth Foss

#education #homeschooling #education

The child, unhampered, does not waste time. ↗