Guide

Time, space, imagination.  I'm not greedy: I'll share all of these with you.  You need only ask and we'll voyage where you will, I promise.

But not now.  Not, in fact, till summer comes.  For each September I enter a world far stranger than any my fancy could create.  It is called "school."

The powers that govern the school scene have long recognized the bewilderment it evokes.  Thus they issue manuals each year to both the staff and the students.  These handbooks are meant to guide the school population through the morass that lies ahead.  But visitors to the school world may also need rescue from its confusion, and for them I offer this devout help.

A BIBLICAL GUIDE TO THE SCHOOL SCENE

Room Numbers

Remove not the ancient landmark.

(Proverbs XXII, 28)

Nurse's Room

Is there no balm in Gilead?  Is there no physician there?

(Jeremiah VIII, 22)

      Scheduling

My times are in thine hand.

(Psalms XXXI, 15)

Hall Passes

More to be desired are they than gold.

(Psalms XIX, 10)

Excuses for Tardiness

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

(Psalms CXVI, 11)

Smoking in the Lavatory

Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

(Job V, 7)

Dress Code

Even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

(Matthew VI, 29)

Seating Chart

There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

(Proverbs XVIII, 24)

Changes in the Seating Chart

He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

(Proverbs XVII, 9)

Lunch Menus

We have here but five loaves and two fishes.

(Matthew XIII, 17)

Dismissal

And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind.

(Acts II, 2)

Students (as teachers see them)

Vain is the help of man.

(Psalms LX, 11)

Teachers (as students see them)

She came to prove him with hard questions.

(1 Kings X, 1)

School Disciplinarian

The king of terrors.

(Job XVIII, 14)

Guidance Counselor

A friend of publicans and sinners.

(Matthew XI, 19)

Basketball Coach

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

(Matthew VI, 27)

Orchestra Instructor

He was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

(Genesis IV, 21)

Chorus Instructor

They that carried us away captive required of us a song.

(Psalms CXXXVII, 3)

Study Hall

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.

(Proverbs VI, 10)

Homework

I will not give sleep to mine eyes or slumber to mine eyelids.

(Psalms CXXXII, 4)

Tests

Study to be quiet and to do your own business.

(1 Thessalonians IV, 11)

Report Cards

Thou renderest to every man according to his work.

(Psalms LXII, 12)

Parent-Teacher Conferences

Your fathers, where are they?

(Zechariah I, 5)

Graduation

Another book was opened, which is the book of life.

(Revelation XX, 12)