I wasn't popular in school, I was Mexican, I was all these inappropriate things. I started playing the ukulele and taking it… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The good Lord gave me eight grandchildren, and I am convinced that through schools like Desert Christian that we are going to… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
The only reason I acted in school was because of the community. I was in the chorus of every play and was… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
As an urban school superintendent, I learned that hiring, training, and investing in professionals to support our children's social and emotional development,… — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I moved when I was about 12 years old: different school, had to live in digs. It was harder for my family,… — Jesse Lingard Copy Share Image
I went to school at Juilliard, and most of our training there is the classics, and as much as I thrive in… — Gayle Rankin Copy Share Image
Nursery schools and bars at 2 a.m. are the only places where it is completely normal if someone just spontaneously throws up… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
Do not confuse NEET with educational ability as they are different. NEET benefits students of a particular stream. It favours a student… — M. K. Stalin Copy Share Image
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
I did community theater and kids programs at professional theaters and plays at school and voice lessons for seven years. I stopped… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
I played for Middlesbrough's youth team. At the age of 16, I went into a shed at the training ground and was… — Bob Mortimer Copy Share Image
I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks. By the fourth week, I found it tedious.… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
My mother taught us to sell food in the market so we could pay for school. I would get up at 4:30… — Dikembe Mutombo Copy Share Image
Hunter High School was a real turning point for me. I found out about its existence through the music school. Nobody I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you're a kid, right, and you're surrounded by all these other kids, and let's say they don't have the same interests… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
I've always been in rock bands. I was in a rock band with my brother in high school. Then I was playing… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
School is where children spend most of their time, and it is where we lay the foundation for healthy habits. That's why… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Growing up it was the exception because I was maybe the only one in my school or my circle of friends that… — Anna Chlumsky Copy Share Image
When I was on the chubbier side, I thought that whatever God and whatever my body told me to be at that… — Karl-Anthony Towns Copy Share Image
In the south of India, they educated girls. Three things came together in southern India that are unbelievably coincidental. There, the local… — Barbara Crossette Copy Share Image
Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent." Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
I grew up with adults who believed the Virgin Mary was appearing in Medjugorje, Yugoslavia. They held prayer meetings where they closed… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I am an Air Force brat who grew up at various Air Force bases. I changed six schools in about five years… — Kapil Sharma Copy Share Image
I try to stay far away from all of them. I was tempted to go to my snotty high school reunion, but… — Princess Superstar Copy Share Image
“I found my mind wandering at games; loved boxing and was good at it; and in summer, having chosen rowing instead of… — Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Share Image
Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
All of the sudden people say, "She's got tits and legs and blond hair. Let's talk to her!" I've been paying dues… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
However, it [singing] wasn't until halfway through high school that it dawned on me that singing wasn't just a hobby, it was… — Kina Grannis Copy Share Image
That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I was from my little perch in a prep school I saw the civil rights movement and it was defining the moral… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I remember having a grade-school teacher I thought was a hard-ass. When you're that age, you think the guy is Himmler. Then… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
My son is pre-K and my daughter is in elementary school. So they don't watch the show. But my son knows that… — Betsy Brandt Copy Share Image
In fact, I lost my dad at a young age and had to put myself through school. I didn't have a lot… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image