“I started to explore computers on my own and first used one at the age of 6, when I was in first grade.” FirstsAgeUsedMy OwnComputerGrades Author:Arfa Karim
“I've been playing youth basketball ever since I was in sixth grade; I've been traveling ever since I was in sixth grade, so I'm used to it.” UsedYouthBasketballGradesSixth Grade Author:Derrick Rose
“Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher, introduced us to some of the great literature of African American culture. I won my first blue ribbon reciting the vernacular poems of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, in particular "Little Brown Baby."” FirstsLittlesCultureLiteratureTeacherParticularBabyBlueAfrican AmericanGradesBrownFifthAmerican CultureRibbonsRecitingGreat LiteratureVernacularFifth GradeAfrican American Culture Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“[ Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher] introduced us to these authors early on and taught us that their literature is important. Langston Hughes - we read his poetry. We studied who W.E.B DuBois was. And so she whetted our appetites.” ImportantLiteratureTeacherTaughtGradesAppetiteFifthTaught UsFifth GradeDubois Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“In my fifth-grade yearbook - it's right up there on the top shell - the last page says, "What about your future?" and under my name, it says, "When I grow up, I would like to be either an actor, a radio announcer, an impersonator or a comedian."” LastsActorsNamesGrowsGrowing UpPagesRadioComedianGradesOur FutureShellsFifthYour FutureFifth GradeAnnouncersYearbookImpersonators Author:George Carlin
“When I was in seventh grade, I was caught stealing money from the visiting team's locker room during a basketball game. So I was sent to The Brothers. That's what they called this parochial school up in Goshen, New York. I was supposed to get closer supervision there and more "masculine influence," whatever that means. But I was thrown out for telling a couple of really lame kids on the playground that I had heroin.” MeanKidsSchoolGamesRoomsTeamInfluenceNew YorkBrotherCoupleBasketballCaughtStealingGradesThrownMasculineVisitingHeroinLamePlaygroundsLockersLocker RoomSupervisionBasketball GameSeventh Grade Author:George Carlin
“[Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the learning-disabled rooms.” FirstsKidsRoomsThirdsGradesDisabledKindergartenThird Grade Author:Marva Collins
“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.” DoeBookTodayReadingFamiliarGradesOutsidersSeventh Grade Author:Rob Lowe
“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.” ShouldKidsSchoolFoundFatherTeacherShould HaveGradesSchools And Teachers Author:John Carlos
“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.” IfsFirstsSchoolGradesModeling Author:Tyra Banks
“My mother always told me that came first. I started modeling in 11th grade and it was something that I did after school and on the weekends. School is so important and modeling should be treated as an extracurricular activity as opposed to a career until you graduate high school.” ShouldFirstsImportantSchoolMotherCareersActivityHigh SchoolTreatedGradesWeekendGraduatesModelingAfter SchoolExtracurricular Activities Author:Tyra Banks
“Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.” PeopleCountryGovernmentSchoolInterestChurchTeacherLandBuiltPaidUniversityEightGradesMissionaryEmployedCivil Society Author:Nelson Mandela
“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.” IfsWayLooksSaidKidsAbilityDealsCommonDemocratObstaclesSuperiorsDefinedFasterGradesLowestEducation SystemPublic EducationSamenessCommon DenominatorHumiliateRetardGood GradesLowest Common Denominator Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Every time we have a mass murder we're gonna go to the memorial or we're gonna grade the president's performance at the memorial to determine whether or not we're being effective in dealing with it?” PresidentMassPerformancesMurderDetermineGradesMemorialDealing With It Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page story and handed it in to my teacher. She told my mother I was going to be a writer. Since then, I always kept a journal and wrote poetry, plays, stories.” YearsPlayStoriesWantedMotherKnownTeacherPagesSevenGradesJournalSeven Years Author:Renee Watson
“Most brain scientists have not taught 4th grade, and don't know very much about the classroom, even though they might study learning in some detail. Most education professionals, who often know a tremendous amount about the classroom, don't know much about the brain. That is one of the reasons why I am so skeptical about applying brain findings to the classroom.” KnowsReasonMightBrainStudyTaughtAmountFindingsScientistDetailsReason WhyGradesClassroomSkeptical Author:John Medina
“From about ninth grade on, I knew I was a writer at heart. I had fantasies of being a great novelist, but I thought that seemed like an iffy way to try to make a living. So I tried journalism while in college, and really liked it. But even in journalism, I've always pursued ways to be somewhat literary, whether writing a column or writing books.” WayWritingTryingHeartBookFantasyCollegeJournalismNovelistsGradesPursuedColumnsWriting A BookNinth Grade Author:Kevin Maney
“When I was in the second grade, one of my teachers said, "Where are you going to find a husband? How are you going to find someone darker than you?" I was mortified. I remember seeing a commercial where a woman goes for an interview and doesn't get the job. Then she puts a cream on her face to lighten her skin, and she gets the job! This is the message: that dark skin is unacceptable. I definitely wasn't hearing this from my immediate family - my mother never said anything to that effect - but the voices from the television are usually much louder than the voices of your parents.” SaidJobsRememberFacesMotherParentVoiceDarkTeacherSeeingEffectsTelevisionHusbandMessagesSkinsHearingInterviewsGradesCreamImmediate FamilyDark Skin Author:Lupita Nyong'o
“It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a 3rd grade essay on someone else's work.” FeelsWritingHardSpeakReaderThemeGradesEssays Author:Tim Winton
“I liked school and was a bit of an all-rounder academically, I struggled with music. I can't hold a note when singing and abandoned any notion of a career in music after barely scraping a pass in grade 2 piano.” I CanSchoolBitsCareersSingingNotesNotionPianoGradesAbandonedScraping Author:Stephen Curry
“I got good grades but no particular comment stands out in my memory, I'm afraid. I was one of those annoying and rather boring model pupils.” MemoriesParticularModelsBoringGradesCommentAnnoyingStanding OutPupilsGood Grades Author:Stephen Curry
“I didn't think I was good at anything, didn't do well in school. And then in the third grade, I was going to a public school. And the teacher was putting math problems on the board. And I said to myself - it's amazing how you can remember certain incidents at any age that made an impression - I asked myself why is she putting those up when the answers are obvious. And then I saw it wasn't obvious to anybody else in the class. So I said, "Hey, I'm good at something."” ThinkingWellsMadeSaidProblemAgeSchoolRememberCertainAnswersClassSawsTeacherThirdsObviousMathImpressionHeyBoardsGradesPublic SchoolIncidentsThird GradeMath Problems Author:Charles Koch
“Every kid Grade 6 and up carries a cellphone - with that they can access the world. They are the most connected, aware generation that's ever existed.” WorldKidsGenerationsConnectedAccessGradesCarrieCellphone Author:Eric Walters
“In Jamaica we had the English way of schooling from the age of four, so when I got to America I was already a few years advanced because I started school at the age of three-and-a-half rather than six and my grades moved up accordingly. In America, they start you at school at six because the grades are different. I had to take a test and they didn't know what to do with me. It wasn't that I was any smarter; I had just started younger. All of a sudden I was jumped from eighth to tenth grade. They said I was very smart, but I was only smart in languages, really.” KnowsWayYearsSaidDifferentAgeSchoolAmericaThreeLanguageHalfFourSixSmartTestsMovedGradesSmarterThey SaidSchoolingVery SmartJamaica Author:Grace Jones
“I know where "Blubber" came from. It came from stories that my daughter told me when she came home from fifth grade. There was a kid in the class who was being bullied. We didn't even call it bullying then, that's what's so weird. Victimization in the classroom. The word bully was so out, was so not in use for all those years and now it's back big time.” KnowsYearsStoriesUseHomeBigsKidsClassDaughterGradesMy DaughterBullyingClassroomBullyFifthBulliedVictimizationBeing BulliedFifth Grade Author:Judy Blume
“"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.” Being TrueGradesSixth GradeMy Truth Author:Judy Blume
“I also really like to read good books and I don't have enough time to do it. So it's really hard for me to imagine willingly submitting myself to a trilogy of books that I've been told are at the fourth grade reading level which isn't a very nice thing to say but.” BookHardEnoughReadingLevelsNiceImagineGradesFourthGood BookVery NiceEnough TimeNice ThingsTrilogiesFourth Grade Author:Lena Dunham
“Niggas on the internet know everything. You could make a freestyle tape in the fourth grade and they'll know about it.” KnowsInternetGradesFourthTapeFreestyleFourth Grade Author:Cormega
“I just always loved mythology, ever since I was a kid. Greek mythology was something I remember learning about in fourth grade, and Egypt, too, and something about both those things just clicked with me. I just thought they both were so beautiful and interesting to learn about.” KidsBeautifulRememberInterestingMythologyGreekGradesFourthGreek MythologyEgyptFourth GradeGreek Myth Author:Brie Larson
“I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and I was definitely in the slow group. She didn't call it that, but everybody in the class knew. But I still loved reading. Being a slow reader affected my grades in school, but it didn't affect my love for reading. I still loved going to the library, and I still loved reading books.” FirstsStillsBookSchoolRememberReadingClassTeacherGroupsReaderLibraryGradesAffectedDividedReading BooksGrades In School Author:Gene Luen Yang
“I have ALWAYS wanted to write - I was the seven-year old entering local library poetry contests, and I recently found my eighth-grade yearbook when we moved, and I had listed "WRITER" as my future occupation. It's always been something I've been hungry to do, but I think the more practical side of me (encouraged by the more practical sides of my parents of course) shied away from pursuing a career in creative writing, in favor of something a little "safer" like law.” ThinkingWritingYearsLittlesWantedLawCoursesFoundParentSidesCareersCreativeMovedSevenLibraryFavorsPracticalsHungryLocalsGradesOccupationContestsEnteringCreative WritingSeven YearsMy FutureEighth GradeYearbook Author:Lee Kelly
“One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, "If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it." When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can't understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?” PeopleIfsWantFirstsSaidI CanKidsSchoolFacesPayClassRolesSeaTearsCollegeModelsEastGenerousGradesWealthyRepublicRole ModelsBusinessmanElementary SchoolHarlemCitizenryFluffySixth Grade Author:Bette Midler
“[The White House staff] start bringing in their kids, who you think should be babies and now are in second grade or something, and you've watched them grow up. So I think what ends up happening is you end up maintaining those networks and those contacts, but the concentrated interactions and experience that you have here, I don't think, I don't expect you can duplicate anyplace else.” ThinkingShouldEndsKidsHouseGrowsWhiteGrowing UpBabyHappeningsContactGradesWhite HouseInteractionStaffMaintainingDuplicate Author:Barack Obama
“I asked all through third, fourth and fifth grade, when they were asking kids to be in the band, to be in the school band. But they wouldn't let me do it.” KidsSchoolBandThirdsLet MeAskingGradesFourthFifthFifth GradeSchool Band Author:Jon Gordon
“I finally got to junior high and I got to start saxophone. There were a few of us that were in the beginner band in sixth grade that made it to the advanced band, which was called the morning band at our junior high school in Staten Island.” MadeSchoolMorningBandHigh SchoolMade ItIslandsGradesJuniorsBeginnersSaxophoneJunior HighSixth GradeHigh School Junior Author:Jon Gordon
“Kids should be taught about sex, sex hygiene and contraceptive methods starting in the sixth grade, and whenever they want to try it, they should be allowed to go at it without supervision or restriction -in their parents' bedroom, on the grass in a park, in a motel; it doesn't matter, as long as the setting is private and pleasant. If we did all this, our kids would grow up into happier, healthier human beings. But we won't, of course. It would make too much sense.” IfsWantShouldTryingHumansLongMatterKidsCoursesSexGrowsParentHuman BeingsGrowing UpToo MuchTaughtMethodStartingSettingSettingsGrassPleasantParksGradesBedroomRestrictionHygieneSupervisionContraceptivesSixth GradeMotels Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“I got good grades in school, but I'm not sure if I'm smart or if it just means I can study. I've never taken one of those IQ tests, and I don't want to. It's so pointless. As long as you enjoy life and have fun and you're healthy and happy, that's what matters.” IfsWantMeanLongI CanMatterSchoolFunEnjoyStudyTakenHealthySmartTestsHaving FunNot SureGradesWhat MattersEnjoy LifePointlessGrades In SchoolGood GradesHealthy And Happy Author:Dolph Lundgren
“My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.” SchoolThreeCareersFeetHigh SchoolGrades Author:Karlie Kloss
“All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.” WritingSportsEducationLearningGreaterGoes OnBasketballGradesSixth GradeGreater Things Author:Bobby Knight
“I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.” YearsMadeBookTenSixPercentHundredChecksGradesQuartersClassroomFourthBombingHiroshimaFourth Grade Author:Jonathan Kozol
“I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.” YearsSchoolUsedTeachTeachingThirdsPrimariesGradesFourthFifthKindergartenThird GradeFourth GradeFifth GradePrimary School Author:Jonathan Kozol
“In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.” IfsWantWritingFirstsChildrenBookHappensSchoolJobsReadingWhiteImagineTaughtGradesApplicationAds Author:Jonathan Kozol
“Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.” YearsFirstsSchoolSportsBasketballHigh SchoolGradesGrades In School Author:Mike Krzyzewski
“When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.” WantedGradesPriestsSixth Grade Author:Mike Krzyzewski
“I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.” KindWholeCultureFameQuietAnxietyLowsGradesFulfilledColleaguesStaturePreschool Author:Anne Lamott
“I can't tell you the number of times in high school I was allowed to be disappointed for not making the grade; it's a part of life. So the young students who are being taught by radical leftists in this country today are going to end up growing up in a world for which they are totally unprepared and unequipped.” WorldI CanEndsCountryTodaySchoolYoungNumbersGrowing UpGrowingStudentsTaughtHigh SchoolRadicalGradesDisappointedParts Of LifeLeftistsUnpreparedYoung Students Author:Rush Limbaugh
“To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.” SchoolMiddleMediaHigh SchoolJournalismGradesCurriculumMiddle SchoolGrades In SchoolSchool Curriculum Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2. I always wished that I had the capacity to get straight A's, but I didn't. I didn't beat myself up about it, but I really studied hard for my grades.” HardStudentsBeatsCapacityGradesPlusGood Students Author:Tyra Banks
“I went from being very popular and the head of the clique in the sixth grade to having, like, kid depression in the seventh grade. Not leaving the house. Not looking people in the eye... My body made me feel bad at everything.” PeopleFeelsMadeBodyEyeKidsHouseLeavingGradesCliqueVery PopularSixth GradeSeventh Grade Author:Tyra Banks
“Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.” IfsMadeCan DoMathMade ItGradesYou Can Do ItFifthFifth Grade Author:Peter Lynch