Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember we had a visit by a helicopter at our school when I was in grade school, and I was punished… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara,… — Gayle King Copy Share Image
I was voted valedictorian, and at my school it wasn't based on grades; that was the popular vote. — Thomas Middleditch Copy Share Image
Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it… — Greg Gutfeld 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
When I was growing up my mom was home. She wanted to go to work, but she waited. She was educated as… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
I can't believe we got grades in gym class. I've never used anything I learned in there. "All right, I'm standing in… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Crosses?" "Definitely" "Why?" "Because they're evil, soulless, bloodsucking fiends?" "So was my sixth-grade gym teacher, but he wasn't afraid of a cross. — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one… — George Sand Copy Share Image
By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I've been playing youth basketball ever since I was in sixth grade; I've been traveling ever since I was in sixth grade,… — Derrick Rose 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
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 was bullied in first grade, and it's definitely not fun. But always tell somebody instead of holding it in. Communicate with… — Leo Howard Copy Share Image
I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up. — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
