Category: schools...

• schools that offer courses in positive psychology (happiness)
• schools for bartending, butlership, fly-fishing, clowning, race-car driving, golfing
• being asked to give a commencement address at your alma mater
• helping to preserve one-room schoolhouses
• it's never too late to go back to school
• the early curricula of schools emphasized Greek and Roman classics until well into the 20th century
• in most primitive cultures, the entire environment and all activities were viewed as school and classes
• We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth. (Kenneth Kenniston)
• We need to nurture uniqueness and independence.... Ours must be schools for ego- strength-the child's ego, not the teacher's. "You can do it!" has to be the teacher's consistent, over-and-over steady slogan: "You can hang up your own coat...." "You can pour your own juice...." "You can climb to the top...." "You can figure it out." We have no stake in schools where children learn to color within the lines. No stake in pushing for unnecessary conformity, no stake in children submerging themselves in the group, no stake in everlasting lessons in obediently following the directions. (James L. Hymes, Jr.)
• You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy. (Neil Simon)

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