As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
In grade school I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the one who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.
In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.
Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.
In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.
Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.
I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.
If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.
I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.
If you are still in school, do not neglect your grades. Internships and other activities are fine, but when legal employers have to decide who to interview, grades play a big role in determining who makes that cut and who doesn't.
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts.
One thing about school - I always had this attitude that I was in school to learn, and attempted to do whatever was involved in that process, while school had this attitude that I was there to earn grades, which I couldn't care less about. Unsurprisingly, my grades weren't very good.
I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.
I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school, I was the type to get good grades, I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there's no school for rap.
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.
You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!
Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.
Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to be a real program to educate teachers who want to teach grade school children about history.
My brother was a year younger than I am and he was never in the home with me hardly at all, ... My mom had to take him to every school there possibly was to get him some education. He ended up first in Columbus, Ohio, for grade school, then went to a high school for the deaf and Galludet in Washington.
My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.
Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original 'Mr. October,' but thank god it didn't stick.
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