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.
That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.
I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade.
All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.
I've always felt that maybe one of the reasons that I did well as a student and made such good grades was because I lacked. . . self-confidence, and I never felt that I was prepared to take an examination, and I had to study a little bit extra. So that sort of lack of confidence helped me, I think, to make a good record when I was a student.
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.
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.
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.
I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular
I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one.
You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.
The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.
We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.
We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve higher grades in school and college and have more success in their careers than others. Success depends on the ability to delay gratification, which is precisely what a consumerist culture undermines. At every stage, the emphasis is on the instant gratification of instinct. In the words of the pop group Queen, “I want it all and I want it now. ” A whole culture is being infantilised.
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.
If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.
I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.
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.
Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.
I was a 36C or D, and at 5' 1'', I knew that being a small person with big boobs standing in front of an audience was not going to be easy. It would be really hard to get people to pay attention to me without mocking me. Getting a breast reduction to prepare for my career was no different from people who work to get good grades to get into a good college to get into a good graduate school to get a good job. I went down to a B cup, and it was the best thing in the whole world.