3,403 Quotes About School



  • Author Eudora Welty
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    It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to measure up was paralysing. It was never that Mother wanted me to beat my classmates in grades, what she wanted was for me to have my answers right. It was unclouded perfection I was up against.

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  • Author Gordon Korman
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    Registration Day' by Gavin Gunhold (1899— ) Toronto Review of Poetry, 1947On registration day at taxidermy schoolI distinctly saw the eyes of the stuffed mooseMove.

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  • Author James Kakalios
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    Interestingly enough, whenever I cite examples from superhero comic books in a lecture, my students never wonder when they will use this information in their "real life". Apparently they all have plans, post-graduation, that involve protecting the City from all threat while wearing spandex. As a law-abiding citizen, this notion fills me with a great sense of security, knowing as I do how many of my scientist colleagues could charitably be termed "mad".

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  • Author Caspar Vega
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    Hang out in front of a school on a Friday after class has been dismissed. Some notion. I wonder if any inmates ever choose to just hang out in front of the prison after they've been released.

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