Grades Quotes - Page 19

• You teach someone about fallopian tubes in grade school, and you revisit it again in seventh grade for a better understanding of that stuff. I think it's never-ending. I don't know why it isn't all the time.

  Jen Kirkman

  School, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You know, the old version was about balancing a checkbook. The new version is about the risks of debt, which is so much more widely available. So I think it's important that we design relevant financial literacy courses, and teach them starting early in grade school.

  Elizabeth Warren

  School, Thinking, Design

  Source: www.bethkobliner.com

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• I started to explore computers on my own and first used one at the age of 6, when I was in first grade.

  Arfa Karim

  Age, Firsts, Computer

  Source: arfakarim.wordpress.com

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• I've been playing youth basketball ever since I was in sixth grade; I've been traveling ever since I was in sixth grade, so I'm used to it.

  Derrick Rose

  Basketball, Youth, Used

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher, introduced us to some of the great literature of African American culture. I won my first blue ribbon reciting the vernacular poems of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, in particular "Little Brown Baby."

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Baby, Teacher, Blue

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• [ Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher] introduced us to these authors early on and taught us that their literature is important. Langston Hughes - we read his poetry. We studied who W.E.B DuBois was. And so she whetted our appetites.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Teacher, Taught Us, Important

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• In my fifth-grade yearbook - it's right up there on the top shell - the last page says, "What about your future?" and under my name, it says, "When I grow up, I would like to be either an actor, a radio announcer, an impersonator or a comedian."

  George Carlin

  Growing Up, Yearbook, Names

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• When I was in seventh grade, I was caught stealing money from the visiting team's locker room during a basketball game. So I was sent to The Brothers. That's what they called this parochial school up in Goshen, New York. I was supposed to get closer supervision there and more "masculine influence," whatever that means. But I was thrown out for telling a couple of really lame kids on the playground that I had heroin.

  George Carlin

  Basketball, Brother, New York

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• [Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the learning-disabled rooms.

  Marva Collins

  Kids, Rooms, Firsts

  Source: reason.com

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• I was not familiar with the book [before filming in The Outsiders] , though. Interestingly, The Outsiders had not reached the point where it is now, where it's required reading in sixth and seventh grades. In my sixth and seventh grade, we did not, but today everyone does.

  Rob Lowe

  Reading, Book, Outsiders

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My kids going to school and teachers denying my kids the grades that they should have once they found out that I was their father.

  John Carlos

  Teacher, Father, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grades and school. That comes first.

  Tyra Banks

  School, Firsts, Modeling

  "Tyra Banks Chats Modelland & Reveals Which Kardashian’s Gonna Be On Next Season of Top Model (Exclusive Interview!)". Interview with Dan Koday, www.clevver.com. October 25, 2011.

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• My mother always told me that came first. I started modeling in 11th grade and it was something that I did after school and on the weekends. School is so important and modeling should be treated as an extracurricular activity as opposed to a career until you graduate high school.

  Tyra Banks

  Mother, School, Weekend

  Source: www.teen.com

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• Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Teacher, School

  Source: www.mott.org

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• If you take a look at education, the kids that get good grades are said to humiliate those who don't. And what, then, do we do? Slow them down. We put obstacles in their way. We do not devise public education systems that are designed to deal with their superior learning ability. We retard it so that they don't learn any more, any faster than the lowest common denominator - and that really is the nub of it. The Democrats' equality and sameness is all going to be defined by the lowest common denominator.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Kids, Looks, Way

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Every time we have a mass murder we're gonna go to the memorial or we're gonna grade the president's performance at the memorial to determine whether or not we're being effective in dealing with it?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Memorial, President, Murder

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page story and handed it in to my teacher. She told my mother I was going to be a writer. Since then, I always kept a journal and wrote poetry, plays, stories.

  Renee Watson

  Mother, Teacher, Years

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Most brain scientists have not taught 4th grade, and don't know very much about the classroom, even though they might study learning in some detail. Most education professionals, who often know a tremendous amount about the classroom, don't know much about the brain. That is one of the reasons why I am so skeptical about applying brain findings to the classroom.

  John Medina

  Brain, Reason Why, Details

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• From about ninth grade on, I knew I was a writer at heart. I had fantasies of being a great novelist, but I thought that seemed like an iffy way to try to make a living. So I tried journalism while in college, and really liked it. But even in journalism, I've always pursued ways to be somewhat literary, whether writing a column or writing books.

  Kevin Maney

  Book, Writing, Heart

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• When I was in the second grade, one of my teachers said, "Where are you going to find a husband? How are you going to find someone darker than you?" I was mortified. I remember seeing a commercial where a woman goes for an interview and doesn't get the job. Then she puts a cream on her face to lighten her skin, and she gets the job! This is the message: that dark skin is unacceptable. I definitely wasn't hearing this from my immediate family - my mother never said anything to that effect - but the voices from the television are usually much louder than the voices of your parents.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Mother, Teacher, Jobs

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a 3rd grade essay on someone else's work.

  Tim Winton

  Writing, Speak, Theme

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• I liked school and was a bit of an all-rounder academically, I struggled with music. I can't hold a note when singing and abandoned any notion of a career in music after barely scraping a pass in grade 2 piano.

  Stephen Curry

  School, Careers, Piano

  Source: www.thefreethinktank.com

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• 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.

  Stephen Curry

  Memories, Annoying, Boring

  Source: www.thefreethinktank.com

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• I didn't think I was good at anything, didn't do well in school. And then in the third grade, I was going to a public school. And the teacher was putting math problems on the board. And I said to myself - it's amazing how you can remember certain incidents at any age that made an impression - I asked myself why is she putting those up when the answers are obvious. And then I saw it wasn't obvious to anybody else in the class. So I said, "Hey, I'm good at something."

  Charles Koch

  Teacher, School, Math

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Every kid Grade 6 and up carries a cellphone - with that they can access the world. They are the most connected, aware generation that's ever existed.

  Eric Walters

  Kids, Generations, World

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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