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"Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!"
"A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... He will assume control of your cities, states and nations. He is going to move in and take over your churches, schools, universities, and corporations ... The fate of humanity is in his hands."
"Are you reading?" I say. It's not that I don't think Finn can read or anything, but it's just - well, not what I expected to see. I figured Finn spent his time doing whatever it is guys who aren't Josh do when they aren't in school. Burping, or something. "Try not to look so surprised," Finn says. "I read. I can count to ten. Sometimes I can even spell my own name."
"I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games. In a more traditional nerd sense, I just read lots of books and I enjoyed school."
"I try to keep it positive and play it cool, shoot up the playground and tell the kids to stay in school."
"I'm actually the last person to ask about school. I kinda ducked out at 12, before all that stuff might have happened. I left school after sixth grade and was basically home-schooled after that."
"All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system."
"Everyone I talked to was a recording-the bank, the elevator, your office, the school, a wrong number. You used to be able to call a wrong number and get a person."
"Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary."
"When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons."
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct."
"In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded - here I am speaking of the U.S. - while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school, there is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien - and very often they believe themselves superior."
"...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are."
"It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest orator, who triumphs in the splendour of his eloquence, while he governs the passions and resolutions of a numerous assembly."
"Being on the road and doing events is like getting kids ready for school for most families."
"Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place."
"I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world."
"The purpose of schools should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now"
"I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys."
"I made my first website when I was ten. I flirted using instant messages all throughout high school. I like the Internet. I like cuddling. I like my cell phone. I like awkward eye contact with strangers. I like hearing people's voices. I like parties. I like Craigslist. These things don't seem technologically exclusive to me."
