Best 115 quotes in «grades quotes» category

I couldn't care less about good marks. I want to learn.

Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects.

Grades are still important, buy they are not the most important things. As clichéd as it is, the things you learn outside class is more important than the textbooks you blindly memorize in time for exams.

If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.

I got an A on the third quiz in American history, an A, dammit. Last time I got a B up from a C and my father said, "if you can get a C you can get a B, if you can get a B you can get an A."- I got an A and my father said, "grades don't mean anything.

I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.

I mask my hate. I mask my pain. One thing that I can't mask is my dwindling grade point average." -Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.

My priority is not about grades. I yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.

Some of you may consider my teaching techniques rather casual. Others will wonder how I arrive at your proper grade. There is no mystery here. I grade partly from examination results, partly from a subjective, or even subconscious, evaluation. I must admit that beautiful girls face a special handicap; I must constantly guard against giving these delicious creatures all that they want and more. I might add that ugly girls fare no better, since then I must take into account my kindly pangs of guilt and pity." Ottillie Veder said: “I am a girl. How will I know whether my bad grade is because you admire me or because you find me disgusting and repulsive?” “Nothing could be simpler. Arrange to meet me out on the beach with a blanket and a bottle of good wine. If I do not appear, your most pessimistic fears will be confirmed.

This question of grades being coercive, and of politics being inherent in teaching, applies not only to writing, but to all fields. Mathematics, science, economics, history, religion, are all just as deeply and necessarily political. To believe they’re not—to believe, for example, that science (or mathematics, economics, history, religion, and so forth: choose your poison) describes the world as it is, rather than acting as a filter that removes all information that does not fit the model and colors the information that remains—is in itself to take a position, one that is all the more powerful and dangerous because it is invisible to the one who holds it.

I cannot remember even my own lies, how can I remember lessons of history

This time Elizabeth Ann didn't answer, because she herself didn't know what the matter was. But I do, and I'll tell you. The matter was that never before had she known what she was doing in school. She had always thought she was there to pass from one grade to another, and she was ever so startled to get a little glimpse of the fact that she was there to learn how to read and write and cipher and generally use her mind, so she could take care of herself when she came to be grown up. Of course, she didn't really know that till she did come to be grown up, but she had her first dim notion of it in that moment, and it made her feel the way you do when you're learning to skate and somebody pulls away the chair you've been leaning on and says, "Now, go it alone!

What's the matter?" asked the teacher, seeing her bewildered face. "Why—why," said Elizabeth Ann, "I don't know what I am at all. If I'm second-grade arithmetic and seventh-grade reading and third-grade spelling, what grade am I?" The teacher laughed at the turn of her phrase. "you aren't any grade at all, no matter where you are in school. You're just yourself, aren't you? What difference does it make what grade you're in! And what's the use of your reading little baby things too easy for you just because you don't know your multiplication table?

There are strategies to score or to be ahead but there is one strategy to learn which is curiosity.

Your grades and degrees doesn't reflects your true education.

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

Robert said, "This is great, huh? Sorry to butt in and everything, but I really need the extra points. For my grade." Ben nodded and tried to smile. Right, for his grade. He probably wanted to get an A++ in social studies instead of just an A+

All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

Determine a single measure that you can use to grade your progress and success in each area of your life. Refer to it daily.

And I thought to myself, 'I haven't had a Schlitz since the third grade!

Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.

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

Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

God grades on the Cross not on the curve.

Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

He'd barely seen me coming, and despite the horribleness of what I'd just done, I kind of wished one of my instructors had been there to grade me on such an awesome performance.

I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.

I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.

I did plays in grade school.

I am the kind of dude that would go to your seventh grade class and sit at the back of the classroom and stare at all your butts.

I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

If your mom was here, she would flip her top over your grades." "Flip her lid," I muttered.

I don't miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It's like asking, 'Do you miss the fourth grade?' I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don't want to do it again.

If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.

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 grew really fast. It's true I went from 5'6'' to 6'1'' in six months in 8th grade. By the end of 8th grade, I was 6'1''. Everyone was freaking out.

I did not think I would make the grade.

If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

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

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.