I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Parents make sure homework is returned without error, drill their kids on upcoming tests to the saturation point, and then complain if… — John Rosemond Copy Share Image
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I exclusively attended public school... And I can honestly say that on the day of my graduation, if you had given me… — Jessica Bowman Copy Share Image
I was playing sports all the time, growing up. And then, somewhere around 10th or 11th grade, I kind of lost interest… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
My family went on a cruise, and I got a terrible haircut. FYI: Never get your hair cut on a cruise. And… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
My first real kiss was in seventh grade. It was at the movie 'Hardball,' starring Keanu Reeves, and it was with my… — Matt Prokop Copy Share Image
I didn't have good grades until I started dancing, because I didn't try - I didn't see the point. Once I realized… — Kyle Abraham Copy Share Image
I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
I was a 36C or D, and at 5' 1'', I knew that being a small person with big boobs standing in… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Among Hispanics, there is little change in popularity from a grade point average of 1 through 2.5. After 2.5, the gradient turns… — Roland G. Fryer Jr Copy Share Image
My mother always told me that came first. I started modeling in 11th grade and it was something that I did after… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I did my first play in fifth grade. This same fifth grade teacher asked me several years later what I wanted to… — Heather Hemmens Copy Share Image
What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
There was some sort of maze-learning experiment involved in my final grade and since I remember the rat who was my colleague… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas… — William Watson Purkey Copy Share Image
In presidential campaign I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
The good works that really matter require the help of heaven. And the help of heaven requires working past the point of… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Is he a sophomore?" Lydia says. "Please tell me he's in our grade." "I don't know," I say. "But weren't you there… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
In sixth grade, some kid was being inappropriate with a girl. I said he better stop. Next thing were fighting. Then were… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
I am told by others that I have a lateral-thinking, broad approach to problems, sometimes to my detriment. In school, my grades… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I love New York. I first came here with my Mom when I was in 9th grade. I took the subway for… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I was in the hospital for a month and a half of my first-grade year, so I missed a lot of school.… — Brian Littrell Copy Share Image
“Fs Are "Fabulous" Hey, Mom and Dad! I got my grades! And you'll be thrilled to hear the marks on our report… — Ted Scheu Copy Share Image
There is a big difference between a disappointing friend and a deadly enemy. Of course the Democrats are disappointing. That's what makes… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Life begins at six--at least in the minds of six-year-olds. . . . In kindergarten you are the baby. In first grade… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
You can't have an honest fourth grade school teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Johnny, your son, your only child, the fruit of… — Dom Irrera Copy Share Image
