That moment when you're bouta sleep on the bus and your…

I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

— Ted Martinez

High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably…

— Kami Garcia

Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how…

— Daniel Espinosa

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that…

— Henry Giroux

My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds…

— Amala Akkineni

I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled…

— Paul Smith

When I was 13, I auditioned for the theater school, and I was there for four years. In the meantime, I did my first…

— Ana de Armas

I was in high school and I had an independent album out, and we kept sending that out, and I was doing shows. No…

— Tyler Hilton

Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which…

— Greg Perry

Me mum used to always have the radio on - even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames…

— Karl Pilkington

I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to…

— Mandy Patinkin

There's no publicist, no advertisements, and no one's pushing us. If people are buying our records, it's because big brothers and sisters or friends…

— Spencer Moody

It was only when I went to acting school that I was like, "You are absolutely such a pigheaded freak show that you thought…

— Giles Matthey

Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare,…

— Tom DeLay

I remember throughout middle school and high school how excited my mom, sister and I would be when a UNC game was on TV.…

— Harrison Barnes