I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.
I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.
We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes.
The ninth grade. I went from 5'9 to 6'8.
There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.
There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.
Thing is, I wasn't in the library, didn't study too much, didn't get the best grades, but honestly, I didn't party a lot either. I stayed in a lot.
In seventh grade, false feelings and false faces are the rule.
Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.
I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.
I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.
I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
I never cared what kind of grade I got.
The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one that everyone puts forward, and they prognosticate that the straight-A person is the one most likely to succeed, because that's the way the school system is constructed and conceived.
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 was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.
. . we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.
We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning.
When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that.
I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.