Requiring one-sixth of our workforce to have a license in order to get a job is excessive and it robs our citizens of the chance to pursue their dreams while leaving our employers without the qualified employees they need to be able to grow.
Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.
I got a part in a play in 10th grade, and that changed everything, woke up my love of theater.
I got to work with A-grade stars like Rajendra Kumar, Feroz Khan and Rajesh Khanna.
The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.
It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.
We hear time and again what a prosperous, affluent country Britain is, the sixth richest in the world. But aren't we ashamed that people who need emergency food handouts are eating cold beans and stewed steak from the tin, or handing it back, because they can't even heat it up?
My father was a filmmaker but he made B-grade films. However, he always aimed at making a big film.
I first started rapping when I heard the Sugarhill Gang in 1979, when I was 11 years old in seventh grade.
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved.
I still can't manage to keep a journal, and people have been telling me to since the fourth grade.
With 'The Sixth Sense,' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a story about communication. I understudied with my dad, in a sense. It made a huge difference.
I was in the same class of 100 kids from grade 6 through 12, many of whom I still call friends.
I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
I was born in L.A. County Hospital, but I grew up in Pasadena. I married my 8th grade sweetheart, Marcia.
The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it.
I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.
I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!
When Obamacare was introduced, Republicans and Democrats knew the status quo wasn't working. But Republicans rejected the notion that to help 2 million people with preexisting conditions get access to care, we needed a 2,000-page bill that transformed one-sixth of the economy.
Whenever you can get a competitive, first-grade person to join your team, you never know what happens.
I got a GED based on Catholic school seventh-grade education, really. I didn't make it that far.
I started working out with my mom in 4th grade. She used to take me to the track.
The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check".
I was in seventh grade, and getting a part in Full House was huge. It opened so many doors for me.
By the time I reached the sixth form at my local grammar school, my father would glower at me every time I passed him with a stack of books under my arm, warning me there was no money to go to university.
I actually remember being in 3rd grade and piecing together in my head that one of my guy friends was homosexual.
I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.
I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.
I've lived in the same apartment since seventh grade. It's in my name now; my mom moved upstate.
In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions.
Somewhere around the fifth, sixth album, we got this little formula together where we knew how to record Too $hort songs. You need the bassline, a good drum pattern, call in the keyboard, the guitars - it's just a way we mixed it all together.
I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use
I spent grade nine and ten going to school in Victoria. My parents lived there for 10 years.
All my life I knew I would have a big business. That’s what I wanted from the time I was in second grade; there was never a doubt in my mind.
Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.
I never had the vaguest idea whether any of it had anything to do with me, especially being a sixth grader. When I got older and traveled, I'd read about the history of where I was going. I'd be like, "Oh, history is kind of interesting."
I've been fat since fourth grade and bullied for it, but I still knew I couldn't represent every kids' experience.
Surrender is forbidden. Sixth Army will hold their positions to the last man and the last round and by their heroic endurance will make an unforgettable contribution toward the establishment of a defensive front and the salvation of the Western world.
My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.
Of course you don't want your kids swearing. But remember how fun it was to cuss when you were in the first grade?
I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.
I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn.
I'm tired of being 51st in this country on the NEAP scores on fourth-grade math. We don't have but 50 states.
There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.
I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.
So why don't you tell him you're sorry?" Gaby suggested. "Uh... because he probably never wants to speak to me again?" "How do you know? Do you have a fifth sense too?" Scarlett sighed. "No. And I think that's sixth sense." "No, I don't see dead people. It's different.
One way to ensure that all kids will be successful in school and life is by focusing on literacy by the end of the third grade.
I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.
When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous.
I'm a fifth generation Washingtonian and I was born and raised here. My kid's a sixth generation Washingtonian. Honestly I wish people didn't move because I love the people of the city.
My sixth sense uses the other five senses to communicate. I may have a vision, hear a sound, get a smell, or have a physical sensation that corresponds with how someone passed. What I do revolves around noticing subtle differences in my mind and body - because they're messages.
I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.
I played football in eighth grade, and even though I had a passion for it, it turned out I'm no good at playing it.
I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.
My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
An 'A' grade cricketer like Pujara should get a massive amount where he is not bothered whether he plays IPL or not.
I had never seen a Pro Wrestling ring until I was maybe around grade 11.
I never went to school beyond the 3rd grade, but my mother taught me the difference between right and wrong.
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