“Compassion speaks with a slight accent. She was a vulnerable child, miserable in school, cold, shy … In ninth grade she was… — J. Ruth Gendler Copy Share Image
I had been brought up in an elementary school where, my first few grades, I remember being specifically told that my teachers… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I believe that all genial classrooms share at least five characteristics that guide their instruction regardless of content or grade level. These… — Thomas Armstrong Copy Share Image
When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
My long-held fear is that Mr. Obama is hiding something about his education. During the endless 2008 campaign, Mr. Obama would not… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I don't really date. I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
At some point I started getting published, and experienced a meager knock-kneed standing in the literary world, and I started to get… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Having been kept pretty strict in prep schools, I guess I couldn't cope with all the freedom at Yale. I had a… — Efrem Zimbalist, Jr Copy Share Image
I do home schooling. I went to regular school until fifth grade, and then I started doing home schooling, which it's completely… — Miranda Cosgrove Copy Share Image
Tonight, the news debated the intelligence of a bear. And it got my wondering why humanity rewards itself for passing tests that… — Paige Copy Share Image
It's kind of shocking to me, actually, that I've almost been stereotyped, in a way - physically - because, I didn't get… — Charlyne Yi Copy Share Image
No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
The earliest stand-up comedy I was aware of was Bill Cosby. I watched Saturday Night Live as soon as I was aware… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
It's a familiar story now: a meek and depressed high school chemistry teacher with terminal cancer cooks up a scheme to make… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
Don't let a grade decide your self-worth. Personally, in my opinion, someone should gauge their self-worth on what they've accomplished that makes… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
Soft rock music isn't rock, and it ain't music. It's just soft. Reminds me of something my third-grade teacher said to us.… — George Carlin 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 actually went to see 'Rushmore,' and I came late, and I missed myself. It was great, that scene. I caught that… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - we're talking sixth… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I never read in school. I got really bad grades-D's and F's and C's in some classes, and A's and B's in… — Cher Copy Share Image
I liked school and was a bit of an all-rounder academically, I struggled with music. I can't hold a note when singing… — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“I have graded my separate works from A to D. The grades I hand out to myself do not place me in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I did a lot of lying. I went through a big lying phase when I was in like third and fourth grade.… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
I dropped out in middle school. I dropped out in, towards the beginning of the ninth grade. And then I started studying… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I was a kid in the third grade ... saw a dummy in the toy store. In the '60s and '70s there… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other,… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade… — James W. Loewen 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
As we all know, when you're an athlete things are a little bit easier for you. It didn't mean that what was… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige,… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“As you work to become a better student, remember that learning is far more important than the numbers on your transcript. I… — Stefanie Weisman Copy Share Image
We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
