Best 115 quotes in «grades quotes» category

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

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.

To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.

There was a climber named Bridwell On grade I's he did well. But on grade VI, he got into a fix and rappelled to the talus and hid well.

This actress named Lisa Eilbacher. I was up for the part in Shampoo and friends of mine kept telling me she was going around saying all these bad things about me. It's like we're still in the sixth grade sometimes.

When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn't afford them.

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.

We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning.

You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.

You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.

As you work to become a better student, remember that learning is far more important than the numbers on your transcript. I know it can be hard sometimes to remember what you're in school for. In some places, students go crazy over a tenth of a point - but this is an unhealthy and unsustainable way to manage your education. The real reason you're in school is to grow as a person and fulfill your potential.

Don't forget that your happiness is the most important thing, and that you should never equate your GPA or school with your sense of self-worth. . . . If you're feeling overwhelmed, take a step back and remind yourself that you are not your grades.

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.

Ce frumos il fac pe trei!

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

You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.

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.

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

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 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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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+

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.

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!

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.

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

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

God grades on the Cross not on the curve.

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 bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.

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.