A Quote by Bill Gates

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

Bill Gates

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Being Cool Good Grade Public Public School School Sixth Sixth Grade Tests Through

Quote Author

Bill Gates
American - Businessman
Born: October 28, 1955

In sixth grade, I went to a very good private school, and I did learn there. I learned how to read and write. If I had quit school in sixth grade, I would know as much as I know today and would have made one more movie. By the time I got to college, I was so bored and angry.

John Waters

I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground.

Rodman Philbrick

I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.

Sami Gayle

I started school in public housing. My dad had a sixth-grade education.

Rick Scott

When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes at Worcester Art Museum, which I attended from sixth to 12th grade.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

Ben Affleck

If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade, seventh-grade level.

Richard Carmona

See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.

Rosalind Wiseman

From the time I started playing... When I tried out for a team in sixth grade and on - I was always starting through high school.

Grayson Allen

I was always pretty good with making deals. When I was in sixth grade, when Pokemon cards were hot, I might have started with, like, three or four cards, and then at the end of the year, through trading with my friends and everything, I ended up with the biggest card collection in my school.

Jimmy O. Yang

I'm from Wisconsin; well, that's where I went to school from, like, sixth grade till I graduated high school.

Evan Glodell

Middle school was my most awkward stage. I switched schools after the sixth grade after having gone to the same school for six years with the same group of 40 kids. It was a shock. I reinvented myself. I experimented with different styles, different groups of friends, and different types of music and not knowing how to be cool.

Amber Stevens

I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.

Olivia Wilde

I don't think I really knew I was going to be a rapper until sixth grade. Even then, it was still kind of - I was in sixth grade. I was always saying I was going to become a rapper.

Chance The Rapper

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.