He seems like an average type of man. He's not, like smart. I'm not trying to rag on him or anything. But he has the same mentalit...y I have--and I'm in the eighth grade.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I became the Incredible Shrinking Mother the year they started junior high. If our relationship today depended on physical clout, ...I would have about the same influence with them that the republic of Liechtenstein has on world politics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machin...e, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life begins at six--at least in the minds of six-year-olds. . . . In kindergarten you are the baby. In first grade you put down th...e baby. . . . Every first grader knows in some osmotic way that this is real life. . . . First grade is the first step on the way to a place in the grown-up world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be wit...hout the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of the... highest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week, and be...tter understood and retained, by sixth-grade students. Child-centeredness does not mean lack of rigor or standards; it does mean finding the best match between curricula and children's developing interests and abilities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Silent rushes the swift Lord Through ruined systems still restored,... Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless, Plants with worlds the wilderness; Waters with tears of ancient sorrow Apples of Eden ripe to-morrow. House and tenant go to ground, Lost in God, in Godhead found.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his s...ervant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »