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Quotes from the 1982 diary
v I love the canteen, the
hot dogs nice and cold and the chips ever so soft –DC
v Just when I knew all
life’s answers….they went and changed all the questions-SS
v I come here for 8 hours a
day-do you expect me to work as well? -DS (I actually think this is
Debby Shaw’s quote)
v The only reason I come to
school is because they make me come- GP
v Don’t go to school: if you
want to learn Anon
v Write small, ‘cause by the
time your teachers get out of uni., they’re too old to see anyway-SS
v School wasn’t meant to be
easy-AR
v Don’t find fault, find a
remedy!-Anon
v Matriculation-nature’s
laxative. MP
v A good teacher is one who
can make hard things easy –LMJ
v If you can’t convince
them-confuse them. –AMM
v God save us in November! –TFH
v This may surprise you, but
…….teachers are actually “HUMAN”-Anon
v When you stop to think,
don’t forget to start again-Anon
v School is something
everybody has to suffer sometime-anon
v School is a mind boggling
source of useless information.-LB
v About 1/8th of
your life is spent at school, why complain ?-HB
v I’d just like to take this
opportunity to say “Hi” and “Bye” to all friends,
acquaintances……..and teachers. HB
v Teachers don’t get made,
they just get even-anon
v Don’t let school get you
down. Flunk it now & get it over with. VJJ
v Work fascinates me. I can
sit & look at it for hours.-KM
v A dog has more friends
than men because he wags his tail & not his tongue.-VJJ
v If school days are the
best of our lives, imagine the rest of our lives.-SW
v One of the oldest diseases
of civilization is male chauvinism.-SW
v Happiness is not a
reward: it is a consequence.-Anon
v DARTH VADER sleeps with a
teddy wookie.-KB
v 11th
Commandment: “Thou Shalt not disagree with thy…..teacher.”-CB
v 21st Century
T-shirt:”What was Matriculation?”.-anon
v School is punishment for
all the sins we have not committed. –JF
v Homework causes brain
damage.-PF
v Darwin High School-Enter
at your own risk. –HL
v Yes: You are a freak of
nature. LMc
v Warning: do not feed the
animals. Teachers bring their own lunches. –MMc
v Kissing someone who smokes
is like kissing a dirty ashtray.-NP
v If you think of me the way
I think of you, SHAME ON YOU!!-ED
v Love makes the world go
round, so help me push.-FP
v You got to kiss a lot of
ugly frogs, before you meet the handsome prince. –MW
v People that need help,
lend a hand.-ED
v I don’t know what we’re
doing.-MP
v I think I’ll go to
sleep.-MC
v Get your mother to push
the car.-MP
v They waste their time by
kicking a ball around, we waste ours by riding a bike.-RH
v That’s them, not us. –RH
v Going to school is like a
stray dog: it’s been everywhere, done everything, but learnt
nothing.-KC
v Failure is not final.-anon
v So teachers think students
are dumb!-SR
v Teachers keep asking us
questions.-MW
v You can lead a horse to
water, but you can’t make it debate.-Anon
v Minds are like parachutes,
they only function when they’re open. Anon
v If you can’t solve it, run
away from it!-Anon
v A child only educated at
school is an uneducated child.-anon
v Look back with thanks, &
forward with confidence.-Anon |
