At the end of the day, children are in school now from their fourth birthday or even younger: a lifetime of schooling when families are tied down to when they can go on holiday.
That low and throaty tone of hers, never quite unseductive (listen to her flirt with Tom Cruise, of all people, in the first "Mission: Impossible"), compounded by a lifetime of schooling in Shakespearean cadences, means that, when Volumnia says she would rather lose eleven sons in combat than have one "voluptuously surfeit out of action" — in other words, stay home and slob out — we believe her.
Normally, penetrating this clique would take a lifetime of public schooling, but now there's a short cut – a company called Stays Afloat, which lets you hire a yacht for the weekend.
In Trenton, the cycle of violence begins with poverty at birth and accelerates over a lifetime of interrupted schooling, inadequate social engagement, and missed career opportunities.
"Mrs. Warren's Profession" takes place on the weekend that Vivie Warren Madeleine Hutchinss), fresh from Cambridge, really gets to know her mother, after a lifetime of boarding schools, lightning-fast visits and long-distance communication.
Compared with the costs at older schools, the district has reduced operating expenses at each new school by 30percenttotalinging an estimated $100 million savings over the lifetime of all the schools built.
If the objective of financial education is to help adults make important decisions over a lifetime, the usefulness of school-based programs is greatly diminished.
Brunello, Weber and Weiss find that an additional year of schooling increases the lifetime earnings of compliers – who typically have less than upper secondary education – by nine percent.
Lewis Thomas was one of those vectors, and I confess that I get twinges of what might be called a Brill-Zinsser recurrence of sentiment when I'm asked about a lifetime of teaching in medical school: "…as we grow wiser we learn that the relatively small fractions of our time which we spend with well-trained, intelligent young men are more of a privilege than an obligation.
As a solitary Nicole plucks a gray hair, or Angel joylessly rifles through her bedroom drawers, viewers educated at the Lifetime school of movie crisis resolution may pine for a shooting or a scholarship — anything to put these people out of their misery.
So, devoting a month to salute the work of school leaders is time well spent, since, against all odds, they spend a lifetime of work to achieve successful schools.
