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.
If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.
I did like history. I was always quite interested and got good grades as well.
I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.
All of the things an arts education gives a young person enhance leadership skills and help raise grades.
I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up.
I studied all kinds of dance, all types of music. I got good grades. I started hitting the recording studio around 13.
Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.
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.
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.
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.
A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
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.
Being an actor is like being a student, and I plan to get top grades.
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 got fairly good grades, but I was bad at woodwork. They said I tried hard, but the result was hopeless.
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.
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.
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.
We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.
Growing up, I tried to be involved in school a lot, and I had good grades. I was an active kid, and I loved being social.
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.
A Gallagher Girl's real grades don’t come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.
My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
I was pretty smart in school in terms of grades and stuff. I just got the bug to do music.
I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.
Our scholastic system isn't structured to make sure that kids in the fifth or sixth grades absolutely know how to read.
When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.
Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.
I was the All-American kid, or so I told myself - good grades, never in trouble, bright future, well-respected by my peers. My favorite comedian was Bob Newhart.
As a child, I tried to play by the rules. I got very good grades in school; I was an Eagle Scout; and I believed in all of it.
I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.
When I was a kid I was not a good student. I went to the University of Colarado, my grades were poor. I was asked to leave after a year. What I really wanted to do was to be an artist.
If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.
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.
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.
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.
There was no pressure at home regarding grades. We were expected to study and pass but luckily our parents gave us a broader education.
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.
From getting good grades when I was growing up to finishing college to respecting my elders to the discipline that I have - everything can go back to martial arts.
My first priority is my children, and when Brielle's grades were failing, I made it a big, big deal!
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.
My mother and brother made me strive to get good grades and get through school.
Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.
First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
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.
I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.
My mom could afford to put us in a Catholic school for grades one through seven, but not after that.
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.
I got good grades but no particular comment stands out in my memory, I'm afraid. I was one of those annoying and rather boring model pupils.
I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.
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.
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.
I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history.
My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all?
In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.
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.
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