Schoolhouses

I don’t know how affordable units like this are, but if they were cheap enough, imagine what these could do in schoolhouses across the world (assuming electricity and a phone line, something else we tend to take for granted.) ❋ Unknown (2007)

Section seventy of chapter seventy-one ot the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out all after the word "schoolhouses" in the second line, so as to read as follows: — Section 70. ❋ Unknown (1663)

"no fire areas" such as schoolhouses and mosques, and the propensity of Hamas fighters to hide themselves in the midst of non-combatants is well-known. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And so for miles and miles, Batman painted a neat yellow stripe up and down the streets of Sioux City, Iowa, past limestone churches and past brick schoolhouses. ❋ Tim O (2009)

Thus, raising children to respect authority, be self-disciplined, and know right from wrong–the Strict Parent model– was expected in one-room schoolhouses and, later, age-graded elementary schools. ❋ Valerie Strauss (2011)

In the old schoolhouses, producing proper young gentlemen and ladies was more important than producing scholars. ❋ Eliot Schrefer (2012)

The group has set up innovative bio-sand water filtration systems "eventually a sustainable small business," says International Operations Director Marc Young, installed simple composting toilets to deal with rampant sanitation problems, and constructed several transitional schoolhouses. ❋ Michelle Chen (2011)

Residents in this eastern city point to a legion of examples: shoddily built schoolhouses where walls have begun to crumble and students are now taught outside; a new hospital where the doors are too narrow to accommodate beds; and a would-be irrigation system that is now a miles-long stretch of caked mud. ❋ Ernesto Londono (2010)

Tight budgets mean tough times, but pinching pennies should not mean less money for children in schoolhouses across America. ❋ John Bridgeland (2011)

But Hunt was only the first in a line of great alcohol haters and educators, says Okrent: "The day is surely coming," she had told the congressmen, "when from the schoolhouses all over the land will come trained haters of alcohol to pour a whole Niagara of ballots upon the saloon." ❋ Stanton Peele (2011)

What schoolhouses is Ms. Dukes standing in the doorway to protect? ❋ Unknown (2011)

I've visited schools all over the country, from one-room schoolhouses in Montana to urban academies in New York. ❋ Suzie Boss (2010)