Pastoral Resources

His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.

The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

In school, I was an underachiever.

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.

Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond.

As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.

That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.