Part III, ch. 19 (unnamed student)
Up the Down Staircase (1965)
“Science is the most important thing you can study in school.”
Bill Nye (1955) American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and former mechanical engineer
[NewsBank, 35, Associated Press, TV host decries U.S. failure to value science, math education, The Star-Ledger, Newark, New Jersey, December 10, 2000]
Greta Thunberg (2003) Swedish climate change activist
2018, "Almost Everything is Black and White" (October 2018)
Harold Koontz (1909–1984)
Source: "The Management Theory Jungle," 1961, p. 179
“The school system should be used purely for academia and not for social experiments.”
Christine O'Donnell (1969) American Tea Party politician and former Republican Party candidate
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
As quoted in If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People? (2009) by John Mitchinson, p. 87
“By study comes communion with the Lord in the Form most admired.”
Patañjali (-200–-150 BC) ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
§ 2.44
Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
“These systems can be studied from a syntactic, a semantic, or a pragmatic point of view.”
Umberto Eco book Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
[O] : Introduction, 0.4
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984)
Context: A specific semiotics is, or aims at being, the 'grammar' of a particular sign system, and proves to be successful insofar as it describes a given field of communicative phenomena as ruled by a system of signification. Thus there are 'grammars' of the American Sign Language, of traffic signals, of a playing-card 'matrix' for different games or of a particular game (for instance, poker). These systems can be studied from a syntactic, a semantic, or a pragmatic point of view.
Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Chuck Berry (1926–2017) American rock-and-roll musician
Introducing "School Days" on The History of Rock and Roll, (1978), Hour 1: "The Birth of Rock & Roll"
