Grades Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Julie Taymor

  Art, School, Eras

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• I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

  Tom Verlaine

  Piano, Lessons, Grew Up

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• When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

  Tom Verlaine

  Records, Saxophone, Coltrane

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• When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.

  Ryan Sypek

  Baseball, Real, Play

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• After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

  Vernon L. Smith

  School, Cities, Achievement

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• The ninth grade. I went from 5'9 to 6'8.

  Bubba Smith

  Sports, Ninth Grade

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• I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

  Ed Bradley

  Years, Three, Half

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• History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Believe, Ignorance

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.193, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Education, Motivation, Fear

  "Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine". Book by Phillipe Mather, p. 46, 2013.

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• Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Education, Teacher, School

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• Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes. Discouragement is an attitude. Lack of industry is an attitude. Failure to follow instructions is an attitude. attitude

  Sterling W Sill

  Loyalty, Attitude, Failure

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• My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

  Gordon Bell

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• The pressure on kids is high to get good grades. In my time, no one cared about it. My father looked at them but he didn't really make much fuss about them.

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

  Father, Kids, Pressure

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Maturity, People, Age

  Twitter post from May 06, 2016

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• In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

  LeBron James

  School, Fourth Grade, Fourth

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• The first music I ever got into was the '80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade.

  Conor Oberst

  Brother, Alternatives, Band

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. September 17, 2003.

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• Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.

  Susan Orlean

  Dog, Gathering, Parks

  "The Social Animal" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2011.

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• When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.' I played the dentist, and I had my friend play a patient. It was sort of what can go wrong at the dentist, and I just remember I had lots of fake blood and everything.

  Trey Parker

  Blood, Play, Fake

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• According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

  Rick Perry

  School, College, Texas

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• I was always a very quirky kid. I remember very early like fourth or fifth grade doing pratfalls to make my friends laugh, like falling on the ground on the playground and doing like bits and characters.

  Busy Philipps

  Fall, Character, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.

  Colin Powell

  Teacher, Children, School

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• I married way out of my pay grade. I have no idea how that happened.

  Chris Pratt

  Ideas, Pay, Way

  "Dumb Luck". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. April 26, 2012.

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• My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after Norse mythology. She was also the first person to encourage me to submit stories for publication. The idea of writing a fantasy based on myths never left me, and many years later, this would lead me to write Percy Jackson.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Writing, Years

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• I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents.

  Rick Riordan

  Writing, Thinking, Two

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• I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so I knew a lot of mythological monsters already. Sometimes I still use books and Web sites to research, though. Every time I research Greek mythology, I learn something new!

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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