Millenials should band together to kill standardized testing next.
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The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Life is the most effective school ever created.
The thing to remember about being a college freshman is that everyone is in the same boat you are. It's like alligators: they're just as afraid of you as you are of them.
The best of you can hope to have been taught to learn; to yearn for more that you'll still have to earn. 'Cause you're not ending learning, you're ending this one structure.
I can't wait till my kids ask me to help them with their homework and realize how stupid I am.
Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple
The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time.
Continue your education. If you want to go back to school, great. If you want to sign up for a class that lets you explore a creative passion, fantastic. But if you don’t have the funds or the schedule for any of that, it doesn’t matter. Try a goal like reading one book a month (if money is an issue…
You should totally wear underwear to school.
Math is worthless in real life.
The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
Mr. Clarke: 'Hello?' Dustin: 'Mr Clarke, it's Dustin.' Mr. Clarke: 'Dustin? Is everything okay?' Dustin: 'Ye-yeah, I just, I, I have a... science question.' Mr. Clarke: 'It's ten o'clock on Saturday. Why don't we pick this up on...' Dustin: 'Do you know anything about sensory deprivation tanks? Spec…
In school I learned to pretend to read Moby Dick.
The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.
Schools often fail to simultaneously train students how to be skeptical of claims and how to embrace the weight of evidence.
We should not wait for someone else to come and raise our voice. We should do it by ourselves. We should believe in ourselves. Yes, we can do it. One day you will see that all the girls will be powerful; all the girls will be going to school. And it is possible only by our struggle; only when we rai…
The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date.
I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.
School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.