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It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you are wrong, and all the nuances you failed to account for, and all the truths that turned out to

It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you are wrong, and all the nuances you failed to account for, and all the truths that turned out to be not as simple as you once believed. And it seems to me that one of the central pleasures of attending school is that you get to read with really well-informed people who can help welcome you into a complex world stuffed with rich and maddening ambiguity.

John Green
School, Simple, People

You can't just make me different, and then leave. Because I was fine before, Alaska. I was just fine with me and last words and school friends, and you can't just make me different and then die.

John Green
School, Alaska, Different

Tuesday—we had school for the first time. Madame O’Malley had a moment of silence at the beginning of French class, a class that was always punctuated with long moments of silence, and then asked us how we were feeling. “Awful,” a girl said. “En français,” Madame O’Malley replied. “En français.

John Green
Girl, School, Class
John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.118, Penguin

I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.

John Green
Time, School, Winter
John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.18, A&C Black

High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.

John Green
School, People, Realizing

There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.

John Green
Real, School, People

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

John Green
Family, School, Years
John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.225, Penguin

I couldn’t help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching them—it was a kind of sad I didn’t mind, and so I just listened, letting all the happiness and the sadness of this ending swirl around in me, each sharpening the other. For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.

John Green
Real, School, Sadness
John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.215, A&C Black

The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.

John Green
School, Thinking, Long
John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.156, Bloomsbury Publishing

And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

John Green
Distance, School, Perfect
John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.228, A&C Black

And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.

John Green
Jobs, Nice, School
John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.33, A&C Black

I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.

John Green
School, Thinking, Parent
Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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