I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York. — Sami Gayle Copy Share Image
Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task. — Alfie Kohn 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
My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time. — Bitsie Tulloch Copy Share Image
I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth. — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
I have been playing since the third grade. It just makes me happy. — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
In 2nd grade, a girl who was a friend of mine gave me a homemade valentine. Like, a real, handwritten one! — Luke Benward Copy Share Image
There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my 'thing' is acting.… — Anna Camp Copy Share Image
To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
Everyone in my grade is turning 13, so there are bunches of bar and bat mitzvahs. They're very dressy. It's fun picking… — Elle Fanning Copy Share Image
In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of… — Kenny Marchant Copy Share Image
I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as… — Yukmouth Copy Share Image
Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades… — Dennis Wilson Copy Share Image
I get letters from classes all the time. Say it's assigned in someone's 8th grade class, and the teacher asks everyone to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance.… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Grade school was perilous. ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I say to the women out there, remember how difficult it was for women like Justice O'Connor starting out. Even though she… — Maryanne Trump Barry Copy Share Image
[The White House staff] start bringing in their kids, who you think should be babies and now are in second grade or… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My mothers dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image