Culture
Being a small school, SST has a very close knit environment. Students get to know most of their peers as the year progresses. Though most students have a group of friends they generally hang around, intermingling between these groups is commonplace.
SST is often defined as a nerd school and SSTer's take this label with pride. Hallway conversations about history, science, politics, and technology are commonplace. A significant percentage of students bring personal laptops to school on a daily basis. During lunchtime, common activities include sports (mainly Basketball, Soccer, and Frisbee), card games (Yugioh, Magic, and Poker), hand held games (DS, PSP), and computer games.
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Famous quotes containing the word culture:
“Education must, then, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.”
—Jerome S. Bruner (20th century)
“The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.”
—Midge Decter (b. 1927)
“Both cultures encourage innovation and experimentation, but are likely to reject the innovator if his innovation is not accepted by audiences. High culture experiments that are rejected by audiences in the creator’s lifetime may, however, become classics in another era, whereas popular culture experiments are forgotten if not immediately successful. Even so, in both cultures innovation is rare, although in high culture it is celebrated and in popular culture it is taken for granted.”
—Herbert J. Gans (b. 1927)