It was Monday morning. Swaminathan was reluctant to open his eyes. he considered Monday specially unpleasant in the calendar. After the delicious freedom of Saturday and Sunday, it was difficult to get into the Monday mood of work and discipline. He shuddered at the very thought of school: the dismal yellow building; the fire-eyed Vedanayagam, his class teacher, and headmaster with his thin long cane...
R.K. NarayanAt it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.
Sydney J. HarrisTag: learning school children teachers teaching
Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.
Sydney J. HarrisTag: education school teaching
When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!
Israelmore AyivorTag: school purpose people peace rain college light physics killing harmony kill roar empty food-for-thought lightning poise voice young thunder discover shout cool-down israelmore-ayivor roaring discovered barrels empty-barrels kills lighten lightening noice
Assuming that all ‘unschooled’ people to lack education is akin to assuming that a salary is the only means to make money, or, that a vagina or a penis is the only source of an orgasm.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: money education school sex orgasm vagina assumption salary educated unschooled
Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: education school curiosity indoctrination employment obedience schooling products raw-material employee employer manufacture independent-thinking
Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: education school punishment economy employment working-class employee
Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: education school employment employee
To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: education knowledge school ignorance slavery employment slaves education-system employees
Now Vegas, while you were asleep your classmates and I were discussing time manipulation. What are your thoughts on the subject?”
“Well,” Vegas turned to the class, his captive audience and smiled, “if you can manipulate time so this bell would hurry up and ring, I'd think it’s fabuloso.” The class snickered again, but not everyone since someone else had made a similar joke just several minutes prior. Naturally, Vegas hadn't been able to hear it over the sound of his own snoring.
Tag: school comedy magic-school
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