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.
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.
Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.
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 grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.
I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.
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.
I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.
I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. You've probably never woken up early on a winter morning to the acid stink of coal smoke in the air, which was everywhere when I was a little kid. My grade school was heated with coal. Not only was coal used to generate electricity, it was without any scrubbers in the stacks.
A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.
I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to college, I decided that I wanted to perform as well, and that's where I started.
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