Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you’re born a sinner and you don’t really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called ‘Antichrist Superstar’. Marilyn Manson
My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back. Denzel Washington
I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked. Eminem
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. John Updike
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools. Jonathan Kozol
We shouldn’t need riot police at schools. Noel Gallagher
I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids. Dolly Parton
Since my racehorses are there, I shall be able to visit them – and Fatima – at the same time. The Belles of St Trinian’s 1954 starring Alastair Sim & Joyce Grenfell & George Cole & Hermione Baddeley & Betty Ann Davis & Renee Houston & Beryl Reid & Irene Handl & Joan Sims & Sid James et al, director Frank Launder, Arab bloke
Cheques are no good; we need cash. ibid. Miss Holland
It’s not a little thing. It’s horrible. I can’t help it – it’s a terrible place. ibid. Grenfell
Girls girls girls! You’re making me blush! ibid. Ms Fritton
Your place is on the hockey field. ibid. Ms Fritton
IN FLAGRANTE DELICTO. ibid. school motto
We are faced with open rebellion. ibid. Ms Fritton
On the night of the 20th June the school buildings of St Trinian’s were burnt to the ground. The Pure Hell of St Trinian’s 1960 starring Joyce Grenfell & George Cole & Cecil Parker & Eric Barker & Thorley Walters & Irene Handl & Lloyd Lamble & Nicholas Phipps & John le Mesurier & Basil Dignam & Michael Ripper & Raymond Huntley & Liz Frazer & George Benson & Sid James et al, director Frank Launder, opening scene
It’s a respectable [marriage] agency, Your Honour. Proper printed notepaper. Advertisement in the Horse and Hound – everything. ibid. Cole in court
You’ve got hold of the dirty end of the stick there, guv. I mean, Your Grace. ibid.
The children may yet be saved. ibid. shrink in court
The final outrage – the Soliloquy [of Hamlet] to striptease. ibid. civil servant at school production of Hamlet
What you been spraying yourself with – Channel 9? ibid.
Biggest Ever Mail Train Robbery: Two and a half million stolen. The Great St Trinian’s Train Robbery 1966 starring Frankie Howerd & George Cole & Dora Bryan & Reg Varney & Raymond Huntley & Richard Wattis & Terry Scott & Eric Baker & Jean St Clair et al, directors Sidney Gilliat & Frank Launder, Daily Mail headline
The rozzers were there again. ibid. schoolmistress
They must appear ordinary respectable kids. ibid. boss to Alphonse
Rozzers! ibid. Howerd
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. Carl Sagan
Scientists need to be prepared to engage, and the best people to engage with are students, ideally from primary school because there’s no question that their capacity to work out complex things is extremely good. Robert Winston
The biggest surprise was the discrepancy in achievement between the progressive and formal classroom. Somewhat contrary to our expectations the findings clearly favoured formal schools. Dr Neville Bennett, University of Lancaster
Low ability boys in formal classrooms did much worse than low ability boys in informal classrooms. Dr Neville Bennett, University of Lancaster
Ragged schools: run by volunteers they took children off the streets, taught them the Bible, and if they were lucky, to read and write. Ian Hislop’s Age of the Do-Gooders II: Suffer the Little Children, BBC 2010
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. Stanley Kubrick
Eric Harris’s House 28 April 1998 ... A 17-year-old’s murderous fantasy is beginning to take shape. He and a friend, known as Vodka or V, intend to commit an act so violent that it will secure their place in history. One year later on April 20th 1999 Eric Harris and another Columbine student, Dylan Klebold, committed the worst high school massacre in American history. They killed twelve students and one teacher, injured twenty-three others and then turned the guns on themselves. Massacre at Columbine High, 2004
They both seemed hell-bent on revenge on the school itself. ibid.
Eric and Dylan have arrived with a huge arsenal of weapons. ibid.
Perhaps the answer is there is no single cause. ibid.
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold die from self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head. ibid.
Our curriculum begins with Hamlet. Ray Donovan s1e4: Black Cadillac starring Liev Schreiber & Paul Malcomson & Jon Voight & Eddie Marson & Dash Mihok & Steven Bauer et al, teacher to mums and dads, Showtime 2013
I got expelled. The Sopranos s3e13: Army of One, AJ, HBO 2001
Biggest Ever Mail Train Robbery: Two and a half million stolen. The Great St Trinian’s Train Robbery 1966 starring Frankie Howerd & George Cole & Dora Bryan & Reg Varney & Raymond Huntley & Richard Wattis & Terry Scott & Eric Baker & Jean St Clair et al, directors Sidney Gilliat & Frank Launder, Daily Mail headline
The rozzers were there again. ibid. schoolmistress
They must appear ordinary respectable kids. ibid. boss to Alphonse
Rozzers! ibid. Howerd
We’ve got three schools ... and all three have a drug problem. Under Cover 1987 starring Jennifer Jason Leigh & David Neidorf & Barry Corbin & David Denney et al, director John Stockwell, black schoolteacher
I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn’t spell it. Rocky Graziano
They hit me. They pulled my hair. They punched me. They demeaned me. And I mean now that I come to think about it I’m quite angry. None of them were qualified teachers. Dave Allen
Schools: only for the well off and only for the boys. Professor Mary Beard, Meet the Romans III: Behind Closed Doors, BBC 2012
In September 2004 terrorists stormed a school in Beslam. Over 300 died, more than half were children. Dispatches: Beslan, Channel 4 2006
To bring Chechnya’s war to School #1. ibid.
The explosives were in the gym where most of the people were held. ibid.
With this warning, all shooting from the outside stopped. ibid.
Basayev, who else? Mastermind of the hospital siege, mastermind of the theatre siege, and again the inevitable demand. ibid.
This is how British children are being taught to read the Koran in a Muslim faith school in the north of England [teacher assaults pupils]. Dispatches: Lessons in Hate and Violence, undercover Durul Uloom, British Muslim faith school Birmingham, Channel 4 2011
Dispatches investigates how some faith schools are operating behind closed doors ... Children being taught a hard line, intolerant and deeply antisocial brand of Islam. And pupils as young as six or seven being routinely hit and kicked. ibid.