My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was… — Umberto Eco 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
So this idea of moving seemed like a good way to sort of represent that metaphorically. It also is something for me… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin;… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things. — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check". — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The main thing is, and of course this is a pedant talking, we should start our education on these issues in kindergarten.… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon. Being a Republican, I'm backing… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book.… — John Cage Copy Share Image
As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated,… — Savannah Guthrie Copy Share Image
God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the… — Angelus Silesius Copy Share Image
I knew I needed to find a way to stay out of trouble and to have good grades to be able to… — Chris Harris, Jr Copy Share Image
If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so… — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
You can take power from others; you can steal it. It is not a very high-grade power. It will give you a… — Frederick Lenz 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 had my two front teeth knocked out by a sixth grader in first grade. — Chad Michael Murray Copy Share Image
By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Eternity is a constant learning process. It will be another grade, another step, a chance to do what we failed to do… — David Berg Copy Share Image
