#school

Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be. ↗

— Seth Godin

#because #easier #fading #governments #industries

But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#college #conservative #except #government #handful

I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was disavowed of that notion pretty quickly while working at the hospital. I found myself really unfulfilled by the answers that are traditionally offered to questions of why some people suffer and why others suffer so little. ↗

— John Green

#become #divinity #enrolled #episcopalian #found

In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do. ↗

— Lucas Grabeel

#boy #choir #had #helping #high

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#doing #english #experience #experienced #found

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit. ↗

— John Grierson

#any #anything #case #common #common good

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#american #ballet #ballet dancer #body #dancer

I think we've all been misled, at moments in our lives, certainly in school situations, and things like that, with getting with the wrong group briefly, or falling in with someone who we learn the truth about and no longer want to really be with. ↗

— John Hawkes

#been #briefly #certainly #falling #getting

I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#eighth grade #grade #high-school #i #lancaster

I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math. ↗

— Phil Foglio

#artist #becoming #else #everything #high