I was in regular school until eighth grade. And then I was home-schooled. — Ava Michelle Copy Share Image
Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local… — Rene Redzepi Copy Share Image
I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract… — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student's… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in… — Chris Farley Copy Share Image
I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
About Grade 9 and Grade 10, I had a fantastic drama teacher, and it was one of the first subjects I actually… — Deborah Mailman Copy Share Image
I was the ghost-faced killer for Halloween in the third or fourth grade. — Rory Culkin Copy Share Image
Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps. — James Heckman Copy Share Image
When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor. — Katie Leclerc Copy Share Image
The best basketball game I ever played was probably when I was in the fifth grade. — Mike Conley Jr Copy Share Image
In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel… — Freddie Prinze Copy Share Image
In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my… — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
When I was in third grade, I promised my mom that I would get her a pink Cadillac Escalade. — Teddy Bridgewater Copy Share Image
In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
