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The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.


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The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum
MENANDER ATHENS Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the Universi...
PETER MCWILLIAMS He didn't come from the academic cut of planners. He comes from more the school of hard knocks.
LARRY GORDON It is easier to change the location of a cemetery, than to change the school curriculum
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LENORA KARPA Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum fo...
CHARLES HANDY School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much mo...
KEN ROBINSON I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of re...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ You know how we take Christ out of school here, that's like a curriculum for them.
COURTNEY PROCTOR We're finding that students are able to meet many state standards, curriculum standards and our scho...
CHARLOTTE STRUTZEL I've noticed a significant difference in the atmosphere of the school since 'Success Highways' becam...
CHARLES SIEBERT You learn more from getting your butt kicked than getting it kissed.
TOM HANKS If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who...
THE SCHOOL OF LIFE It's an accelerated process; we're worried that they will go too fast and they won't look hard enoug...
BOB RANDALL The culmination of heightened anticipation precipitates an accelerated decrement of bio-vitality.
P. A. MONSON Just because you went to school and to back-to-school night doesn't mean you know . . . the appropri...
CAROL LEAR School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teac...
JOHN TAYLOR GATTO I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a ...
ALICE WATERS I, on the other hand, am a fully-rounded human being, with a degree from the University of Life, a d...
ROWAN ATKINSON When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instru...
SPIKE LEE Life is an audition.
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LES BROWN A high school teacher has no speech rights, yet must use words to deliver curriculum.
LINDA MANNING We have excellent teachers at every school. We have the same curriculum at every school. All of our ...
BETHANNE BRADSHAW In America, we have 19th century school conditions and a curriculum that prepares our kids for the 1...
HEIDI HAYES JACOBS The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, b...
AMARTYA SEN If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.
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RUSH LIMBAUGH Sport is an important part of the development of kids, and hence, it should be made a part of their ...
GAGAN NARANG I'll take some hard knocks from the guys for that. We could have held them to zero.
BRADY BOMBER Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
JEANETTE WINTERSON The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritag...
AMARTYA SEN There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference i...
PAUL HAWKEN Christ is the core of my child's curriculum.
TAMARA L. CHILVER You've accelerated your liability,
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NEL NODDINGS I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to ...
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BERNIE WILLIAMS Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
HORACE I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about w...
LANA DEL REY The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popula...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH A Deed knocks first at Thought / And then -- it knocks at Will -- / That is the manufacturing spot.
EMILY DICKINSON Dying from an aggressive fatal brain tumor is like dying from Alzheimer's disease accelerated one hu...
STEVEN MAGEE Chuck Swindoll is somebody who I've read a lot over the years and have used his curriculum when ...
JOHN THUNE Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences,...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks...
D. H. LAWRENCE In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become ...
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JOHN GREEN I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry
JOHN GREEN The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend ob...
JOHN GREEN Seeing, touching is believing!
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL SEO is DEAD in the eyes of the people who know LESS about it.
J. ORACOY I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what...
BRANDON SANDERSON I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be t...
AMY CHUA They had to learn from hard knocks, ... And I want us to be as
prepared as we can.
GEORGE PAYNE When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks now feel like little nudge...
WHOOPI GOLDBERG When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks now feel like little nudge...
WHOOPI GOLDBERG I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, ...
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CHARLES M. SCHWAB It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman...
JAMES S. COLEMAN If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. - Mannequin: My Life as a...
CAROLYN KENMORE It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrou...
MICHAEL MORITZ Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share researc...
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JUDITH CONE As somebody who thinks Tennessee history is important, I want to make certain that's still a par...
BILL HASLAM According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curric...
RICK PERRY He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
MENANDER OF ATHENS Nothing is more useful than silence.
MENANDER OF ATHENS The workman still is greater than his work
MENANDER OF ATHENS There is but one genuine love-potion - consideration.
MENANDER OF ATHENS It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
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TOMMY FUTRAL The rescue teams are moving forward at an accelerated pace. They're moving faster, performing better...
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BONNIE ADAMS The only other home I can enter without an invitation, is my parents home.
BEN OAK The zeal of friends it is that knocks me down, and not the hate of enemies
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DAVID BERNSTEIN Our accounting faculty has done a terrific job building an innovative and practical curriculum.
NED HILL We can expect more from our students both academically and behaviorally if we increase the difficult...
PAUL FITZGERALD My personal view is the true long-term storage is mineral carbonates, which is some form of accelera...
KLAUS LACKNER In Japan, the Bank of Japan is telling markets absolutely everything, leading short-term bond yields...
TONY HUGHES The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.
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DAVID BUSH I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet.
"You're lik...
BRANDON SANDERSON Jerry seems like an old-school baseball guy. He likes the hard-nosed, go get 'em attitude.
AARON HARANG The power of heart is much stronger than the power of mind to empower our life.
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ANDY MELIN It was all about my desire to tell a story. I have a passion and I've had some hard knocks. Film is ...
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JANET ROBERTSON The advantage of having been in the corporate office is that I really understand the curriculum.
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