My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me… — Ernest Gallo Copy Share Image
I tried to talk to the graduates who haven't figured what they're going to do next. The kids who are heading in… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the 'history' I was told in second grade. But considering that… — Ellen Orleans Copy Share Image
The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100… — Paul Achleitner Copy Share Image
By keeping labor supply down, immigration policy tends to keep wages high. Let us underline this basic principle: Limitation of the supply… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
I grew up as a fan of the original Star Trek series. When I was in middle school, I think in the… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips,… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton.… — Pink Copy Share Image
How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher, introduced us to some of the great literature of African American culture. I won my first blue… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The sixth grade made my life successful by preparing me for the seventh and the seventh by preparing me for the eighth… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I was pretty dorky, but there are tiers of dorkdom and I always had friends, though they were equally dorky. I was… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I was… — Hunter Hayes Copy Share Image
If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade. — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
I learned all those jokes in second grade. Second grade is really where they tell you those horrific jokes, racist jokes and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything. — Margaret Spellings Copy Share Image
There's always that seventh-grade girl who looks like she's 25. And you're like, How do you do it? How do you do… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I was always the class clown, although many teachers view the class clown as a trouble maker. But I always had good… — Godfrey Copy Share Image
We now have irrefutable evidence that [Saddam] has once again set up and reconstituted his program to take uranium, to enrich it… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being a member of… — David Einhorn Copy Share Image