Tears of Joy encourages you to contribute your school stories to this page. This is the type of stories we are looking for.
Interesting stories about things that happened in school
Funny or embarrassing moments in school
Inspiring stories about education
A story about how a teacher touched your life
Poems about school or education
Quotes about school or education
Some items found here are videos and other information our company has found on the web that works with this topic or are used as examples of the types of submissions we are looking for.
This is the message that the **Maroochydore High School, Queensland, Australia**, staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephoneanswering machine. This is the actual answering machine message for the school.
This came about because they implemented a policy requiring students and parents to be responsible for their children's absences and missing homework.. The school and teachers are being sued by parents who want their children's failing grades changed to passing grades - even though those children were absent 15-30 times during the semester and did not completeenough school work to pass their classes. Contributed by Julie Wilkerson Impressions from the side of the road
This video is powerful, showing how stories are one of the greatest teaching tool available. It helps kids be better writers, not afraid of speaking and score higher on test. Are you a teacher? Hold a story writing contest. Take the best stories and submit them here (with the parents written permission), or hold a oral story telling contest, video tape the stories. Send up the best stories and we will post them on our site (with the parents written permission). Teach your students the value of story telling
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. Bertrand A. Russell (1872-1970) English philosopher, mathematician, and writer.
The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works. Sherwood Anderson
Education seems to be in America the only commodity of which the customer tries to get as little he can for his money. Max Forman
Education … has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan (1876-1962) British historian
I am not a teacher; only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead–ahead of myself as well as of you. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British dramatist, critic, writer.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher. Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author, editor and printer.
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian physicist and astronomer.
A wise man is one who finally realizes that there are some questions one can ask which may have no answers. Anon
Embarrassing Moments Well you know that everyone has embarrassing moments... whether you are so humiliated you can barely speak, or whether you are laughing at yourself. I could tell you embarrassing moments from my junior high or high school experiences, but they arent as embarrassing as the one that I remember so clearly from the fifth grade. I was only ten or so when it happened, but it was just mortifying. At that point in my life, education was taught to every class in their own classroom the entire schoolday. I came to school on "Social Studies Day" (a day when each person had to share a paragraph of research they did the night before) armed with my info on the history of April Fools Day.
