Top 1200 Good Grades Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.

Even in my neighborhood, the kids come to me for interviews for their term papers. I ask them later what grades they got, and they're always A-pluses.

In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.

We, as a society, will benefit from the interest young people show beginning at first, second, and third grades. As a result, there's great promise in the future.

My mom could afford to put us in a Catholic school for grades one through seven, but not after that.

My first priority is my children, and when Brielle's grades were failing, I made it a big, big deal!

I was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not a partier. I was too Type A and crazy about my grades, but I was still there at everything.

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

Entrepreneurial education in grades K-12, if it exists at all, still focuses on teaching potential entrepreneurs small business entrepreneurship - the equivalent of 'how to run a lemonade stand.'

I kept up top grades, and by senior year, a flow of mailed college recruiting brochures accumulated into an avalanche on our dining room table.

Our scholastic system isn't structured to make sure that kids in the fifth or sixth grades absolutely know how to read.

My kids going to school and teachers denying my kids the grades that they should have once they found out that I was their father.

People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer.

Beginning in 1940,...questionable grades of (low) malignancy were classed as cancer. ...the proportion of 'cancer' cures...increased rapidly.

If you take a look at education, the kids that get good grades are said to humiliate those who don't. And what, then, do we do? Slow them down. We put obstacles in their way. We do not devise public education systems that are designed to deal with their superior learning ability. We retard it so that they don't learn any more, any faster than the lowest common denominator - and that really is the nub of it. The Democrats' equality and sameness is all going to be defined by the lowest common denominator.

My parents were strict with school, strict with grades. I had piano classes, horseback riding, dance.

The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.

I got really bad grades, so I'd hide my report card from my dad. My mom was in on it, too, because she knew he'd be furious. I probably would've gone to boot camp. Seriously.

I wanted to do animation, so for lack of available career counselling, took up Bachelor's in Computer Science, but managed to get only C grades.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

School grades can help determine how well a principal or school leader is doing, and yeah, you need to have some way to evaluate schools.

I was valedictorian of my class until I switched to a neighboring high school, but I maintained the grades and involvement. Switching schools was tough.

My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.

I spent grades one through nine in Baltimore City, leaving for reasons that had nothing to do with the quality of education I was receiving.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.

I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct a graphic that grades badness and madness levels? Interesting idea.

I disagreed with my teachers on pretty much everything, including what grades I was going to get at A-level. I was sure I'd pass, they were convinced I'd fail.

I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

If you're a kid, it's all you think about if you stutter. Kids can be so mean. My grades suffered. Class participation weighs heavy in grading, and I wouldn't open my mouth to read or talk in front of anyone.

I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end

I was an editor for supplemental math, science, and literature programs for the primary grades and became very well versed in elementary curriculum, particularly PreK-2.

The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian.

I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grades and school. That comes first. My mother always told me that came first.

It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it didn't matter. In my heart and head, I was a fraud.

I had great grades. Why? Because I studied twice as long and twice as hard as everybody else.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

I come from a place where people get high, the grades get low, and if someone has a secret EVERYONE KNOWS.

I have fond memories of my childhood. I spent five wonderful years on a popular TV show, but I didn't have a normal childhood. I was tutored for grades 4-11.

I realized early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job. Because there are no pay grades and very little structure, people make interesting assumptions about the profession.

Finding out whether I had made the grades for my first choice university course or whether I needed to rethink my future was terrifying.

All of the things an arts education gives a young person enhance leadership skills and help raise grades.

We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths.

The NRA grades senators and representatives based on their votes on gun issues - and even on issues that have little-to-nothing to do with guns.

When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

When I got outta school, I didn't know what I was gonna do with my life. I knew I didn't have much in the grades department, and so I was very fearful. A whole lot of fear.

Thing is, I wasn't in the library, didn't study too much, didn't get the best grades, but honestly, I didn't party a lot either. I stayed in a lot.

I've done eight grades of piano training from Trinity College and also done my sound engineering course.

Being an actor is like being a student, and I plan to get top grades.

When I was 12, there was a kid a couple of grades older than me who was picking on my sisters. No matter how big they were, I would defend them.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.

There was no pressure at home regarding grades. We were expected to study and pass but luckily our parents gave us a broader education.

Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.

I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.

My mom and I would make bracelets and necklaces, and I would sell it in the first, second, and third grades because that was my lunch money.