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“The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check".”

Science Used Tools Mathematics Method Checks Versions Grades Sophisticated Fifth Fifth Grade

“In grades 1 through 4 these books introduce the child to U.S. society - to family life, community activities, ordinary economic transactions, and some history. None of the books covering grades 1 through 4 contain one word referring to any religious activity in contemporary American life.”

Children Book Christian Community Religious Economic Activity Ordinary Contemporary Grades Introducing Family Life One Word Covering Transactions Referring American Life

Author:Paul Vitz

“In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. The living room rug was frequently littered with hundreds of metal “girders” and tiny nuts and bolts surrounding half-finished structures. An understanding mother allowed me to keep the projects going for days on end.”

“It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week, and better understood and retained, by sixth-grade students. Child-centeredness does not mean lack of rigor or standards; it does mean finding the best match between curricula and children's developing interests and abilities.”

Source: TIES THAT STRESS

“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.”

“Always consider investing in a grade-A man with a grade-B idea. Never invest in a grade-B man with a grade-A idea.”

Men Ideas Investing Grades

Author:Georges Doriot

“When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody who whatever everybody is doing, they do the opposite." I remember raising my hand and saying, "Mrs. Christiansen, I would like to be a nonconformist."”

Said Hands Remember Teacher Opposites Grades Fourth Vocabulary Fourth Grade Nonconformist Vocabulary Words

Author:Nick Offerman

“When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.”

Loss Environment Pages Species Supposed To Be Reports Grades Seventh Grade

Author:Woody Harrelson

“Life begins at six--at least in the minds of six-year-olds. . . . In kindergarten you are the baby. In first grade you put down the baby. . . . Every first grader knows in some osmotic way that this is real life. . . . First grade is the first step on the way to a place in the grown-up world.”

Knows World Way Years Mind Firsts Real Steps Baby Six Real Life Grades First Steps Kindergarten Six Year Olds

Author:Stella Chess

“A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.”

Men Way Hands Three Belief Enjoy Sides Animal Fire Prejudice Crowds Hills Grades Contradiction Agreement Thinker Cows Pointing Shouting Gregarious

Author:William Golding

“That's what I wanted! I wanted to be an athlete, I wanted the girls to like me, and I wanted to be able to get good grades in school, and this man said I could do all that.”

Men Said Able Wanted School Girl Athlete Like Me Grades Grades In School Good Grades

Author:Jack LaLanne

“That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.”

Men World Perfect Views Perspective Gentleman Grades Be A Man Perfect Gentleman

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.”

School Force Pay Plans Destruction Management Merit Grades Incentives Business Plan Grades In School Quota

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that the oft-noted reaction against the subject is not an unfortunate rebellion against a difficult subject, but a perfectly proper response to a preoccupation with triviality.”

Believe Has Beens School Difficult Subjects Taught Intellectual Response Reactions Grades Rebellion Unfortunate Preoccupation Arithmetic Triviality Formal Education Grades In School Difficult Subjects

Author:Lynn Steen

“Junior was being chided for his low grades. Little Robert, who lived a few doors away, was held up as an example. "Robert doesn't get C's and D's does he?" asked his father. "No," Junior admitted, "but he's different. He has very bright parents".”

Littles Doe Different Father Parent Doors Example Intellectual Lows Grades Juniors

Book:Braude's Handbook of Stories for Toastmasters and Speakers

Source: Braude's Handbook of Stories for Toastmasters and Speakers

“The truth was that I'd been spending years running away from myself. I hid myself in drama, silliness, stupidity, banality. So afraid to grow up. So afraid to involve myself in relationships where I might be expected to give the same love I got - instead of sixth-grade shenanigans. I bored myself with all the when I grow up nonsense, but I was worried it would never happen even as I longed for it.”

Giving Years Might Happens Running Grows Growing Up Drama Stupidity Spending Expected Worried Bored Grades Nonsense Running Away Banality Silliness Sixth Grade Same Love Shenanigans

Author:Megan Crane

“Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.”

Love Is Virtue Lows Harder Tolerance Grades Aspire Parody

Author:N. T. Wright

“Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers to as a "teachable moment.”

Made Book Ideas Moments Teacher Son Thirds Grades My Son Pizza Dough Third Grade Teachable Teachable Moments

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'”

Years Parent Rooms Couple Good Things Focused Grades Shy Invited Mobile Demos Seventh Grade

Author:Hunter Hayes

“All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.”

Years Running Kids Able Class Morning Cutting Bases Bottom Average Track Quitting Cards Grades Professors Dropping Stairs

Author:Bobby Knight

“There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - were talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.”

Writing Long Has Beens Book Stuff Talking Player Childhood Football Drawing Comic Grades Comic Book Gave Up Football Player Pro Football Sixth Grade

Author:Adam Ross

“Compassion speaks with a slight accent. She was a vulnerable child, miserable in school, cold, shy ... In ninth grade she was befriended by Courage. Courage lent Compassion bright sweaters, explained the slang, showed her how to play volleyball.”

Children Play School Speak Compassion Cold Vulnerable Miserable Grades Shy Accents Volleyball Sweaters Slang Ninth Grade

Author:J. Ruth Gendler

“I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.”

Trying Firsts Stories Novel Grades Length

Author:Brian Hodge

“Every season I teach zombie school. The casting people in Georgia look for like 200 new recruits. They come in in groups of 20, and I audition them and grade them based on their look and their performance ability.”

People Looks School Ability Teach Groups Performances Seasons Grades Auditions Casting Zombie Georgia Recruit

Author:Gregory Nicotero

“The pressure on kids is high to get good grades. In my time, no one cared about it. My father looked at them but he didn't really make much fuss about them.”

Kids Father Pressure My Time Grades No One Cares Good Grades

Author:Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

“If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.”

Ifs Want Important College Skills Intellectual Athlete Developing Grades Going To College Good Grades

Author:Tony Dungy

“My mother always told me to embrace both sides of my background. And she also taught me one very useful thing when I was going to first grade. She said, "You're Bahamian and African-American on one side, and Russian-Jewish on the other. You're no more one than the other, and it's beautiful that you have all this. It makes your life all the more rich. But society will see you only as black."”

Firsts Said Beautiful Mother Sides Black Rich Taught Embrace Backgrounds African American Grades Both Sides Useful Things

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“I've been writing plays since the third grade. The biggest difference now is that professionals act in them rather than eight year olds...and the language is a bit more "colorful".”

Writing Years Play Language Bits Differences Thirds Eight Grades Colorful Third Grade

Author:Colette Freedman

“I wanted to be a car mechanic and I wanted to race cars and the idea of trying to make something out of my life wasn't really a priority. But the accident allowed me to apply myself at school. I got great grades. Eventually I got very excited about anthropology and about social sciences and psychology, and I was able to push my photography even further and eventually discovered film and film schools.”

Trying Ideas Able Wanted School Film Social Race Psychology Car Photography Excited Accidents Priorities Grades Mechanic Anthropology Social Science Film School Race Car

Author:George Lucas

“I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.”

Trying School High School Grades Slowing Grades In School

Author:Levon Helm

“I learned all those jokes in second grade. Second grade is really where they tell you those horrific jokes, racist jokes and misogynistic jokes that you have no idea what they mean, and you just memorize them because they have a very strong effect, they make people laugh in this kind of nervous, horrible way, and it's only later that you realize that you've got a head full of crap.”

People Way Kind Mean Ideas Strong Realizing Laughing Effects Jokes Horrible Nervous No Idea Grades Racist Very Strong Crap Making People Laugh Horrific Racist Jokes

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians”

Ifs Whole Used Issues Students Higher Politician Concepts Tests Determine Damn Grades Score Sole Pollution Criteria Higher Education

Book:Conversations with Ray Bradbury

Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury

“To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Problem Reading Fiction Boys Drug Roots Science Fiction Solve Grades Toys Hook Secured

Author:Ray Bradbury

“You should never be mean to other girls. I don't care what grade you're in. Be nice to people until you're my age... and you have your own TV show.”

People Should Mean Shows Humor Care Age Funny Girl Nice Tvs Don't Care I Don't Care Grades Being Nice Tv Shows Other Girl Be Nice To People

Author:Chelsea Handler

“Really, he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate? I've been getting that since fourth grade. I guess I'm happy I could give him work.”

Giving Humor Funny Grades Fourth Degenerates Fourth Grade

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.”

Needs Wanted School Study Quitting Grades I Quit Ninth Grade

Author:George Carlin

“My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?”

Believe Mother Church Eight Grades Believe In God

Author:Anne Waldman

“I can't believe we got grades in gym class. I've never used anything I learned in there. "All right, I'm standing in front of a room full of strangers. Based on what I learned in gym class, I will throw a red ball at a fat guy."”

Believe I Can Funny Used Guy Rooms Class Comedy Fronts Red Standing Balls Stranger Fats Grades Gym Gym Class

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I was pretty dorky, but there are tiers of dorkdom and I always had friends, though they were equally dorky. I was one of those kids who contracted cooties in the second grade and then had cooties, because there wasn't a vaccine for it. When I was around people, though, I generally wanted to make them laugh. I told a lot of stories.”

People Stories Kids Wanted Laughing Grades Vaccines Dorky Cooties

Author:Sloane Crosley

“I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't worry about grades and I read and learned a lot, and I didn't have much of a social life, so it was deeply absorbing.”

Art Philosophy Wanted Political Social Class Worry Economics Grades Political Science Social Life Absorbing Art History Science Class

Author:Sheila Heti

“I used to be in love with Sandra Bullock when I was growing up. Sandy B. was my girl. I remember seeing Speed when I was in seventh grade and just thinking, 'That's her.'”

Thinking Remember Used Girl Growing Up Growing Seeing Speed Used To Be Grades My Girl Sandy Seventh Grade

Author:Chris Evans

“Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original 'Mr. October,' but thank god it didn't stick.”

Thinking Littles Kids School Listening Ears Seasons Originals Sticks Series Radio Posts Grades Thank God Yankees October Plugs Mickey Grades In School

Author:Reggie Jackson

“There is no such thing as doing the nuts and bolts of reading in Kindergarten through 5th grade without coherently developing knowledge in science, and history, and the arts…it is the deep foundation in rich knowledge and vocabulary depth that allows you to access more complex text.”

Art Reading Rich Foundation Complexes Depth Access Developing Grades Nuts Vocabulary Bolts Kindergarten Nuts And Bolts

Author:David Coleman

“I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use”

Use Grades Funk Seventh Grade Doctorates

Author:James Brown

“The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.”

Firsts Book Kids Pieces Math Grades Fourth Fourth Grade Boogers

Author:William Joyce

“Have you thought about His (God) handling of the gospel? God needs to get a message out to the human race, without which they will perish...foreve r. What's the plan? First, He starts with the most unlikely group ever: a couple of prostitutes, a few fishermen with no better than a second-grade education, a tax collector. Then, he passes the ball to us. Unbelievable.”

Needs Firsts Humans Race Plans Groups Couple Taxes Messages Balls Human Race Grades Unbelievable Unlikely Collectors Fisherman

Author:John Eldredge

“Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.”

Reading Realizing Class My Friends Grades Sixth Grade

Author:Michelle Williams

“Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.”

Play Girl Player Grew Basketball Grades Basketball Player

Author:Eric Williams

“When I was little, I would always lie about the stupidest things. In kindergarten or first grade, I would tell people I had tigers living in my attic and a room full of gold.”

People Firsts Littles Lying Rooms Gold Grades Tigers Kindergarten Stupidest Attics

Author:Kendall Jenner

“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.”

Ifs Knows School Values Tests Grades True Value Good School

Author:Ezra Miller

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