School
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
Read something of interest every day — something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.
I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.
I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
The funniest memory that I can recall about my school days has to be one incident that involved unfinished homework for numerous days. I didn't do any of my homework for days and days at a stretch, and kept stalling my teacher that I was extremely unwell and was under heavy medication.
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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