“I did all the musicals in high school, and I loved it. And then I got to theater school at college, and was like, "No, I'm a serious actor. I want to do Shakespeare. I want to do classical theater." I took myself very seriously.” WantSchoolActorsCollegeSeriousHigh SchoolTheater Author:Timothy Omundson
“In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music]. I started getting into Jim Jarmusch and knew that my uncle was a friend of his. I pieced together parts of his life in high school and college, which lead me to his story in a funny way.” WayStoriesSchoolTogetherSawsCollegeHigh SchoolAdolescenceUnclesAcademyBrooklynLeading MeWilsonReeds Author:Aaron Brookner
“The good thing about competing at the NCAA Division I Level is that identifying recruits is usually a pretty easy thing for us to do. Most of the time, the type of kids we recruit are identified early in their high school careers by many college programs.” KidsSchoolEasyLevelsCareersCollegeTypeHigh SchoolProgramGood ThingsDivisionCompetingIdentifyingRecruitEasy ThingsNcaa Author:Billy Kennedy
“I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.” PlaySchoolCollegeCoupleHigh SchoolJuniorsJunior HighHigh School Junior Author:Jodie Foster
“A majority of students who come into community colleges are still stuck at high school level or remedial math. And when they take it in college, they still don't pass it. So the Carnegie Foundation got together and created two accelerated courses that focus on real-world applications of numbers like for health, for civics, for personal finance - concepts that you and I use every single day.” WorldStillsTwoRealUseSchoolTogetherCoursesCommunityLevelsNumbersFocusStudentsCollegeHigh SchoolConceptsFoundationMajorityMathStuckFinanceReal WorldApplicationCivicsPersonal FinanceCarnegieCommunity College Author:Anya Kamenetz
“My mother - neither one of my parents went to college. My mother, after her four children had grown up, went back and got her high school equivalency degree at night, at Central High School in Providence, became a teacher's aide.” ChildrenSchoolMotherNightParentTeacherFourCollegeDegreesHigh SchoolOur ChildrenProvidence Author:Tad Devine
“My parents, neither one of them went to college. That wasn't available to them. But, you know, we had a wonderful life. You know, it - you know, we lived in what would now be considered poverty, but, you know, it didn't feel like poverty when I was living it. I had a great time and got a - had a great experience. I went to Catholic school through high school. I had a wonderful education.” KnowsFeelsSchoolParentPovertyWonderfulCollegeHigh SchoolCatholicAvailableGreat TimesGreat ExperiencesWonderful LifeCatholic SchoolHad A Great Time Author:Tad Devine
“I graduated high school in 1989, and there was no alternative rock radio, and there wasn't really good college radio you could get on a car stereo. Once you get a car at that age, you're spending all the time you can away from home, sometimes just driving around aimlessly. Listening, or not even listening, but subconsciously soaking up this classic rock barrage.” SometimesHomeAgeSchoolRocksCarCollegeListeningHigh SchoolRadioSpendingDrivingAlternativesClassicAway From HomeSoakingClassic RockGood CollegeAlternative Rock Author:Craig Finn
“I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.” LittlesI CanSchoolCommunityStudentsCollegeHigh SchoolLifestyleHatedCommunity College Author:Zach Condon
“After the NBA and ABA merged, players could come out after high school. Still, there were only a few cases prior to Kevin Garnett coming out in 1995, so Nike and the other companies were only involved in the college game.” StillsSchoolGamesCompanyCasesPlayerCollegeInvolvedHigh SchoolNbaComing OutKevinNikeAfter High SchoolLife After High School Author:Sonny Vaccaro
“There's certain classes you have to take, certain things you have to do, certain money you must have. Then, if you listen to the counselors and social workers and everybody else talking at you, you would think that once you got out of high school and college, life would be beautiful. But it's not.” IfsThinkingWould BeSchoolBeautifulCertainSocialTalkingClassCollegeHigh SchoolWorkersSocial WorkerCounselorCollege Life Author:Snoop Dogg
“I barely slept during high school because I was too busy dancing and acting all the time. The plan was to go to my dream college that had one of the best performing arts programs, and then go to LA to follow my dream of being an actress.” ArtDreamSchoolActingPlansCollegeHigh SchoolProgramDancingBusyActressesPerformingToo BusyPerforming Arts Author:Rachele Brooke Smith
“I was a gay kid in high school in the late '90s, and I was in theater club. I was never a thespian. I was much more of a lighting guy or a backstage guy. Because I wanted to do something easy for the rest of my life, I thought, "Maybe I'll go and apply to colleges that specialize in theater set design. I'll do that. That's what I want to do". With theater, really, I'd be around the gays.” WantKidsWantedSchoolGuyEasyDesignCollegeGayLateHigh SchoolTheaterClubsLightingThespians Author:James Pearse Connelly
“I didn't try out for bands when I was younger. I got into guitars intensely a couple of years into playing so much by the time I was graduating high school I was accepted into Berklee College of Music.” TryingYearsSchoolCollegeCoupleBandHigh SchoolGuitarAcceptedGraduatesGraduating High School Author:John Petrucci
“My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although he graduated at the top of his high school class, he had no money for college. And he was set to work in a factory but, at the last minute, a kind person in the Trenton area arranged for him to receive a $50 scholarship and that was enough in those days for him to pay the tuition at a local college and buy one used suit. And that made the difference between his working in a factory and going to college.” KindPersonsMadeCountryEnoughSchoolLastsUsedMotherFatherLostDifferencesPayClassPovertyMinutesCollegeGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolAreasLocalsSuitsTeenagerFactoriesInfantScholarshipNo MoneyLast MinuteTuitionGoing To CollegeKind PersonHigh School Class Author:Samuel Alito
“A generation earlier, I think that somebody from my background probably would not have felt fully comfortable at a college like Princeton. But, by the time I graduated from high school, things had changed.” ThinkingSchoolFeltGenerationsChangedCollegeComfortableHigh SchoolBackgroundsPrinceton Author:Samuel Alito
“I went to a girls high school and I went to a women's college and when I first started teaching at Georgetown it had been a single sex school and so they wanted to have some women professors when they went co-ed, and so I originally was hired to start a program there, and really encourage women to go into foreign policy. I always have done that, and I really do think that things are better when women are involved.” ThinkingFirstsDoneWantedSchoolGirlSexTeachingPolicyCollegeInvolvedHigh SchoolProgramProfessorsForeign PolicyGeorgetown Author:Madeleine Albright
“I think that with some education there are real possibilities at the high school and college level, but more so at the college level, to bring people into cycling.” PeopleThinkingRealSchoolLevelsPossibilityCollegeHigh SchoolCycling Author:Kristin Armstrong
“I'm not going to be able to talk about the people who are involved specifically in any ongoing judicial process. We do the same thing with all our players. We take a look, as I said, at their personal family life, we look at the history of what they've done in high school and college.” PeopleLooksSaidDoneAbleSchoolProcessPlayerCollegeInvolvedHigh SchoolOngoingFamily LifeJudicial Author:Bill Belichick
“I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn't like history when I was in high school. I didn't study history when I was in college, none at all, and only started to do graduate study when my children were going to graduate school. What first intrigued me was this desire to understand my family and put it in the context of American history. That makes history so appealing and so central to what I am trying to do.” TryingFirstsChildrenSchoolDesireStudyCollegeHigh SchoolMy FamilyNotesMy ChildrenGraduatesAmerican HistoryIntriguedGraduate School Author:Adele Logan Alexander
“We were the ultimate consumers of the thing, and we thought, "Every college kid is going to go berserk. High school kids - it will introduce them to music they didn't know about. This is going to be a phenomenon." Plus, it seemed like it was insider-y, yet it was available to everyone. I thought, "Cable companies are going to be snatching this up." You think about the dreck that is on so many cable companies, of course they're going to love this. And we were just crushed that nobody cared.” ThinkingKnowsKidsSchoolCoursesCompanyCollegeHigh SchoolUltimateAvailableConsumersPlusPhenomenonIntroducingCablesCrushedInsidersNobody CaresBerserk Author:Jancee Dunn
“I rebelled during my high school years really bad. I started messing around with drugs and having relationships with girls and partying. And I used to tell God, "Hey God, after college I'm going to serve You because I know that's what I want to do with my life. I know that's the best way. I know that's why I was created. But right now I want to sin because I love it. I want to have a lot of fun."” KnowsWayWantYearsSchoolUsedGirlFunSinPartyCollegeRight NowDrugHigh SchoolBest WayHeySchool Years Author:Dominic Balli
“The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful and repays the effort. I started reading it in high school, but I wasn't really able to grasp it. Then I read it in college. I once spent six weeks in a graduate seminar reading it. It takes that long. That's the problem. No one reads that way anymore. People may spend a week with a book, but not six.” PeopleWayMayLongBookProblemAbleSchoolReadingEasyEffortWorryWonderfulWeekCollegeSixPagesHigh SchoolGraduatesJoyceUlyssesSeminars Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“After high school and a year of College I made a half-hearted attempt at professional skiing in Aspen, Colorado and then found myself back in Flint.” YearsMadeSchoolFoundHalfCollegeHigh SchoolHeartedSkiingColoradoHalf HeartedAspensAfter High School Author:Doug Rice
“When I was a child I could do math and art, so I had left- and right-brain capabilities. But I've seen my children, who are more right-brained, struggling. My son was told he wouldn't make it to college, but he dogged it through and ended up being accepted by 10 major art schools after the high school advisor said, "Please don't apply. You're going to be disappointed." That kid's an artist now.” ChildrenArtSaidKidsSchoolArtistLeftBrainStruggleCollegeSonPleaseMajorsHigh SchoolMathAcceptedMy ChildrenMy SonDisappointedCapabilityArt SchoolAdvisorsLeft And RightBeing Accepted Author:Frank Gehry
“Basically, my senior year of high school, I was going to look at prospective colleges and I went to visit Northeastern University because one of my friends was going.” YearsLooksSchoolCollegeHigh SchoolMy FriendsUniversitySeniorSenior Year Author:Jillian Hervey
“Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.” PeopleThinkingPlayKidsSchoolCollegeHigh SchoolComedianPlaywright Author:Mindy Kaling
“I used to find places in high school and college, empty rooms or spaces with pianos. Instead of going to a party, I'd play alone for hours. It became my buddy.” PlaySchoolUsedHoursSpaceRoomsPartyCollegeHigh SchoolEmptyPianoBuddyEmpty Rooms Author:Rachael Yamagata
“Very few college professors want high school graduates in their history class who are simply "gung ho" and "rah-rah" with regard to everything the United States has ever done, have never thought critically in their life, don't know the meaning of the word "historiography" and have never heard of it. They think that history is something you're supposed to memorize and that's about it. That's not what high school, or what college history teachers want.” ThinkingKnowsWantStatesDoneSchoolUnitedClassUnited StatesTeacherHeardCollegeHigh SchoolRegardProfessorsGraduatesGraduating High SchoolHistoriographyCollege ProfessorsHistory TeacherHistory Class Author:James W. Loewen
“I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for girls. Many of the women in my extended family and in our circle of friends were professionals. In those days, women were a vital part of the economy in Kabul. They worked as lawyers, physicians, college professors, etc., which makes the tragedy of how they were treated by the Taliban that much more painful.” SchoolMotherGirlClassEconomyTeacherMiddleCollegeHigh SchoolTragedyPainfulLawyerCirclesTreatedEducatedEtcMiddle ClassProfessorsPhysiciansTalibanPersianExtended FamilyCircle Of FriendsMiddle Class FamilyKabulUpper Middle ClassCollege ProfessorsHistory Teacher Author:Khaled Hosseini
“Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter where you lived, if you could get there. It was for over-achievers. It was for people who were going to college. So we were very special and we were hated for being ritzy.” PeopleIfsWayMatterSchoolSpecialCollegeHigh SchoolHatedScandalElitistAchieverGoing To College Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I feel strongly that we have to have an education system that starts with preschool and goes through college. That's why I want more technical education in high schools and in community colleges, real apprenticeships to prepare young people for the jobs of the future.” PeopleWantFeelsRealSchoolJobsYoungCommunityCollegeHigh SchoolEducation SystemApprenticeshipPreschoolCommunity CollegeTechnical Education Author:Hillary Clinton
“I will never be as busy as I was in high school and college.” SchoolCollegeHigh SchoolBusy Author:Tyler Hoechlin
“I started making music for fun maybe my senior year in college. I started rapping in high school, but it wasn't anything serious.” YearsSchoolFunCollegeSeriousHigh SchoolRapSeniorSenior Year Author:Cakes da killa
“Basically, less educated or high school-educated whites are going to Donald Trump. It doesn't matter what the guy does. And college-educated going to Hillary Clinton.” DoeMatterSchoolGuyCollegeTrumpHigh SchoolClintonEducated Author:David Brooks
“Hillary Clinton said we need to bring back vocational education in high school. We need to support community colleges. We need to make sure that people who are not going to finish college have a job waiting for them and the skills to do the job. These are all - have become fairly standard Democratic policy positions.” PeopleNeedsSaidSchoolJobsWaitingCommunitySupportPolicyPositionCollegeSkillsStandardsHigh SchoolDemocraticClintonCommunity CollegeVocational Education Author:George Packer
“I wasn't really sold on being an artist until high school, my senior year. I was going to do the college thing originally.” YearsSchoolArtistCollegeHigh SchoolSeniorBeing An ArtistSenior Year Author:Ab-Soul
“That competition grew through high school and you step outside more and it grew through college. Then you had regional style speak volumes through college. As you get older, and begin to travel and see more, that was the progression of style for me.” SchoolSpeakStepsStyleCollegeGrewHigh SchoolCompetitionVolumeProgression Author:Pusha T
“Professionally - I had the opportunity to play sports throughout my youth, in high school and college. Early on, I decided I wanted to be a coach so I tried to learn everything I could about all positions on the team.” PlayWantedSchoolOpportunitySportsTeamPositionYouthCollegeHigh SchoolDecidedCoaches Author:LaVell Edwards
“When I look back at high school, or college, or when I was getting married, it's the girlfriends I had then that give substance and joy to that point in my life.” GivingLooksSchoolJoyCollegeMarriedHigh SchoolSubstanceGirlfriendGetting Married Author:Victoria Scott
“I knew that when I left there at the age of 18, I wouldn't be back. And it was common knowledge among all the people there that when you graduate from high school here, you go to college or go get a job or something and do it on your own.” PeopleAgeSchoolJobsLeftCommonCollegeHigh SchoolGraduatesGraduating High SchoolCommon Knowledge Author:Johnny Cash
“I want the younger kids, the basketball players in high school and college to hear from me and let them know that when you come to the league, this is what happens and this is how I feel as an NBA player. And it's not all peachy keen.” KnowsWantFeelsHappensKidsSchoolPlayerCollegeBasketballHigh SchoolLeagueNbaBasketball PlayerNba PlayerPeachy Author:Kevin Durant
“Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.” IfsChildrenGovernmentAbleSchoolAmericaBlackWhitePoorQualityImagineChildhoodCollegeHigh SchoolProgramUniversalSticksRateGenuineGraduatesLatinoHigh QualityGood EducationEarly ChildhoodGoing To CollegeGraduating High SchoolEarly Childhood Education Author:Barack Obama
“I hear that players tend to burn out of basketball, but I absolutely never had that experience myself. There were many times in my life where I got cut from a team I wanted to make, or didn't get playing time in high school, and even into college. But setbacks always inspired me to work harder, spend more time in the gym, play more, learn more, and watch more basketball.” PlayWantedSchoolWatchesCuttingPlayerTeamCollegeHard WorkBasketballHigh SchoolHarderInspiredMore TimeGymSetbackWork HarderBurn Out Author:Ashley Graham
“The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.” KnowsWritingSchoolCreativeCollegeHigh SchoolFormulasCreative Writing Author:Toni Morrison
“The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know. And I said they don't know nothing. Imagine something. Do you know what it's like to be a Madame in Paris, when you're too old to have any clients. No, you don't. I don't either. Write about it.” KnowsWritingSaidSchoolCreativeImagineCollegeHigh SchoolParisDo You KnowFormulasClientsCreative Writing Author:Toni Morrison
“Very early on in this process though I studied acting in high school and college, soon after graduation, I walked away from the craft because I wanted to know that this is what I was supposed to do with my life.” KnowsWantedSchoolProcessActingCollegeHigh SchoolCrafts Author:Aisha Hinds
“In high school I read [Lev] Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and loved it. Then I read [Friedrich] Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals" and that hit me hard. I don't know where I got it. My parents warned me not to mention either of those books when I went for my college interviews so I wouldn't seem like an egghead. They told me to talk about sports.” KnowsBookHardSeemsSchoolSportsParentMoralCollegeHigh SchoolInterviewsAnnaGenealogyEggheadsLev Tolstoy Author:Stephen Greenblatt
“In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still lifes and portraits and landscapes in watercolor and acrylics, took private lessons, won some blue ribbons for my earnest renderings. My lack of talent did little to dampen my enthusiasm. In college I thought I'd continue, but, like Salieri, I quickly realized that while I had the ability to appreciate art, I wasn't actually very good.” LittlesArtStillsSchoolArtistAbilityTeacherTalentCollegeLessonsHigh SchoolAppreciateBlueVery GoodEnthusiasmLandscapeTeensHungPortraitsEarnestEccentricRibbonsRenderingStill LifeArt TeacherWatercolorsSalieri Author:Christina Baker Kline
“This comes from Mike Gonzalez at the Daily Signal: [ Howard] Zinn's history "set the stage for the grievance mongering that passes for history classes today, and is still widely used. It has sold over 2 million copies since it was first published in 1980 and continues to sell over 100,000 copies a year because it is required reading at many of our high schools and colleges. That's a lot of young minds."” YearsMindFirstsStillsTodaySchoolYoungUsedReadingClassMillionsStageCollegeHigh SchoolSellsCopiesSignalsMikeGrievanceYoung MindsHistory Class Author:Rush Limbaugh