“For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher who told us some ridiculous lie about American history and say, "That's a ridiculous lie. You're an idiot"? No. We said, "All right, I'll keep quiet, and I'll write it in the exam and I'll think, yes, he's an idiot." And it's easy to say and believe things that improve your self-image and your career and that are in other ways beneficial to yourselves.” ThinkingWayWritingBelieveSaidSelfSchoolLyingEasyCareersTeacherCollegeQuietHigh SchoolProfessionRidiculousIdiotAmerican HistoryBeneficialExamHistory TeacherGood CollegeSchool History Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think the mild Aspergers have always been there. You see, Asperger's diagnosis did not become common in the U.S. until the early '90s. And an Aspergers has more or less normal speech development and they've always been here, that hasn't changed. I can think back to when I was in high school, this is 40 years ago, I could name kids in my high school class and college class that, today, would be diagnosed as Aspergers.” ThinkingYearsI CanWould BeKidsTodaySchoolNamesCommonClassChangedCollegeDevelopmentSpeechNormalHigh SchoolYears AgoDiagnosisAspergersHigh School Class Author:Temple Grandin
“I didn't always have time to practice as much as I wanted to do, that was a real problem for me in high school and college.” RealProblemWantedSchoolPracticeCollegeHigh SchoolReal Problems Author:Jon Gordon
“Families that I lived with a little bit in junior high and quite a bit in high school and college. Just to have a safe, sane space with food and things like that. That's what I needed. And people were really kind and really generous. So I think the world kind of opened up my first years of performing arts, studying classical saxophone with Caesar DiMauro.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsFirstsKindLittlesArtSchoolBitsSpaceStudyCollegeNeededSafeLittle BitHigh SchoolPerformingGenerousSaneJuniorsSaxophoneJunior HighPerforming Arts Author:Jon Gordon
“I had a lot of bad habits in how I was playing the horn. And I slowly, in high school and college, started to recognize them and get them a little better. But it was not an overnight process, I'll say that.” LittlesSchoolProcessCollegeHabitHigh SchoolHornsBad Habits Author:Jon Gordon
“Justin [Di Cioccio] was [at Laguardia School of Arts]. He later took over at Manhattan. But I knew Justin through the McDonald's band, which at the time I was finishing high school and starting college, I got involved with. I was not that heavily involved with the school at MSM my first year there. I took a semester off to start my 2nd year. Took classes I felt like taking during my third semester, but by the start of my third year, September of '86, they began the undergraduate jazz program and I joined that program.” YearsFirstsArtSchoolFeltClassCollegeInvolvedBandHigh SchoolProgramThirdsJazzStartingSeptemberFinishingManhattanMcdonaldsJustinUndergraduateSemester Author:Jon Gordon
“I think what frustrated me more than anything else in my formative years was that I just had to work. I had to have a job. Like twenty to thirty hours a week, a lot of times in high school and college. And that was hard.” ThinkingYearsHardSchoolJobsHoursWeekCollegeHigh SchoolTwentiesThirtyFrustratedFormative Years Author:Jon Gordon
“Everybody's got a worldview, whether they know they have it or they don't. They might even get it when they are little tiny kids. Suppose they get it when they are in college, which is often the case, or in high school, whatever. Everything they learn after that or every thing they see after that, they fit it into that worldview. And they are making coherence of what's good, what's bad, what will work, what won't work, what's noble, what's ignoble, and so on... all through this filter.” KnowsLittlesMightKidsSchoolCasesCollegeFitHigh SchoolNobleTinyWorldviewFiltersCoherenceIgnoble Author:Jane Jacobs
“I always wanted to be a fashion designer and I learned costume illustration in high school. That was an incredible high school. It was more like a college. I'm moving more in that direction, just kind of merchandising my name.” KindWantedSchoolMovingNamesFashionCollegeHigh SchoolIncrediblesDesignerCostumesIllustrationFashion DesignerMerchandising Author:Diana Ross
“Talent doesn't appear over night. It takes a lot of work and honing your craft, but also don't give up because people may say you're not good enough. I had so many teachers in high school and college saying "You're not going to make it. You're not. You can't." Luckily I had enough people around me who said I could.” PeopleGivingMaySaidEnoughSchoolNightTeacherTalentCollegeGiving UpHigh SchoolCraftsGood EnoughDon't Give UpHad EnoughNot Good EnoughHoning Author:Lea Michele
“To be honest, I wasn't crazy about the kind of poetry I found in high school English books. I didn't get really excited about poetry until I discovered Lorca in college. If it wasn't for surrealism, I'm not sure I'd have become so involved in poetry. I was attracted by the extravagant imagery and elements of fantasy. This was in the '70s and it seemed to fit the psychedelic mood of the times. I found it liberating.” IfsKindBookSchoolFoundFantasyCrazyHonestCollegeInvolvedFitElementsHigh SchoolExcitedMoodBeing HonestNot SureLiberatingImageryGet RealPsychedelicSurrealismExtravagantLorcaSchool English Author:Elaine Equi
“I hadn't really thought about going to college. Nobody in my family went away to school. The other piece of that was I didn't see anybody else in my hometown going to college to give me some kind of influence or something like that you might want to think about. I didn't see any of that. Therefore I thought it was never there. What happened was that my high school coach intervened. Had he not intervened to the measure he intervened, I probably wouldn't have gone.” ThinkingGivingKindSchoolInfluenceCollegeHigh SchoolMy FamilyCoachesHometownGoing To College Author:Lenny Moore
“Language is the primary way we communicate with each other, and we have really strong feelings about what words mean, and about good language and bad. Those things are really based on sort of an agglutination of half-remembered rules from high school or college, and our own personal views on language and the things we grew up saying, the things we grew up being told not to say.” MeanFeelingsSchoolLanguageStrongCollegeHigh SchoolCommunicateStrong Feeling Author:Kory Stamper
“College has become unaffordable for most of the kids who attend, and, while most of the population won't ever graduate from college, our high schools don't prepare students for that reality by providing vocational and occupational training.” RealityKidsSchoolStudentsCollegeTrainingHigh SchoolGraduates Author:James Stone
“Millennials do not know their country at war. They don't see militant Islam as evil. They don't see Islamic terrorism as evil. If they're 30, 911, 2001, they were teenagers, there's been so much propaganda about that. The United States largely has been blamed for these acts of terror, presidents like Bush with their torture have created terrorists and so forth. They've really been given a dose of anti-Americanism, well, I think since they first started going to school but it intensified once they got to high school and college.” ThinkingWarCountrySchoolEvilPresidentCollegeHigh SchoolIslamTerrorTerrorismTerroristTeenagerPropagandaTortureIslamicMilitant Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.” WantSchoolJobsCollegeNeededSkillsHigh School Author:Amy Adams
“Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.” IfsPlayBigsSchoolGuyHistoryCollegeBrotherHigherHigh SchoolJazzPlaying JazzJazz And BluesHigher Learning Author:B. B. King
“We work really hard. I work harder now than I've ever worked in my life. I didn't finish high school or go to college, but I'm able to make something of myself with music. We party a lot and don't always behave ourselves like model citizens, but at least we're honest, and we're not just doing things because it will get us attention.” SchoolPartyAttentionHonestCollegeHard WorkHigh SchoolBehaveWork Harder Author:Jared Swilley
“The economy, virtually all the new income has gone to the top 10 percent, and we need to find those areas where we can actually make a change in that. And that includes enhancing manufacturing jobs in this country, it includes the ability to go to community college for free, it includes the ability to have debt-free higher education, it includes career technical education in our high schools. It also includes taking on the pharmaceutical companies on the extravagant prices that they`re charging for the drugs. Americans need to stay healthy.” CountrySchoolCommunityAbilityEconomyCollegeHealthyDrugHigh SchoolMaking ChangesHigher EducationPharmaceuticalCommunity College Author:Jeff Merkley
“When my friends who were college age took a year off of school, they'd play in Weatherbox, or between high school and college. People always joined on a short-term basis and I did things one day at a time, I guess. There was never a big plan when someone was joining. They were never joining on a full-time membership basis. Since then, we just deal with it. I'd like to have a band that's a total constant, but it's probably not realistic at some point.” PeopleAgeSchoolCollegeOne DayHigh SchoolRealisticOne Day At A Time Author:Brian Warren
“I was kind of in an experimental phase with The Disposable Rappers. This is boring to me, because it's true, but when I was a sophomore in high school, I visited my sister in college and saw an improv troupe, and that was a genuine moment for me. It was an actual "Aha!" moment. After I saw that, I said, "I want to do comedy." So The Disposable Rappers started doing improv in addition to rapping, and when I went to college, I very specifically went saying "I want to join a comedy group."” KindMomentsSchoolComedyCollegeHigh SchoolBoringRapMy SisterRapperSophomore Author:Michael Showalter
“I've been a writer longer than I've been an actor. I wrote short stories like crazy when I was in high school and college. I worked in advertising before I moved to L.A. to pursue acting.” SchoolActingCrazyCollegeHigh SchoolMovedAdvertisingShort Story Author:Thomas Haden Church
“I took ballet for two years in high school and then in college on and off, and I went back into class. I'm nowhere near good enough to be a professional, but it's great to be in that environment. The discipline is so impressive.” EnoughSchoolEnvironmentCollegeDisciplineHigh SchoolGood EnoughBalletImpressive Author:Peter Vack
“College was pivotal for me. It broadened my horizons, taught me to think and question, and introduced me to many things - such as art and classical music - that had not previously been part of my life. I went to college thinking that I might teach history in high school or that I might seek a career in the retail industry, probably working for a department store, something I had done during the holidays while in high school. I came out of college with plans to do something that had never crossed my mind four years earlier.” ThinkingMindArtDoneSchoolTeachCollegeHigh SchoolHolidayClassical Music Author:John E Ferling
“No one has found a gene for IQ. "Heritability" means that identicial twins are more similar than fraternal twins, right? Fraternal twins more similar than non-siblings. The heritability is 50 percent if your parents went to college. But if your parents never graduated high school the heritability is zero. Zero.” MeanSchoolParentCollegeHigh SchoolTwins Author:Jerome Kagan
“At the time, I was reading this Miles Davis book, and he was talking about coming to New York right after he was in high school. It kind of made me feel like, "Yeah." I didn't want to go to college; I wanted to do stand-up. And I figured, "What's the point of doing stand-up around DC? I'm always going to be under-appreciated there because I started there." I felt like I was strong enough and unique enough that I should give it a big leash to shine. New York was the best thing that ever happened to me as a comedian.” GivingKindBookEnoughSchoolReadingStrongCollegeUniqueHigh SchoolShiningComedianStrong Enough Author:Dave Chappelle
“There are jobs here in Baltimore, but the problem is we don't have skilled people. Like the Port Covington initiative - that's 20 years out. I instituted initiatives as mayor that called for equities for minorities, increase minority opportunities, training. It's a good model to duplicate. Everybody doesn't want to go to college. A lot of our vocational programs don't have the latest technology. Students should begin freshman year in high school working on a plan for graduation - either going into an apprenticeship or college.” PeopleProblemSchoolOpportunityTechnologyStudentsCollegeTrainingHigh SchoolProgramInitiativeEquityFreshmanFreshman Year Author:Sheila Dixon
“I actually felt like college was a much better and more comfortable environment for me than high school was. I think that can largely be attributed to the fact that I go to Barnard, which is a women's college that promotes women's leadership, a strong community and independence which are all things I obviously value. Before I got to school I think I expected most women there to identify as feminist, which I found wasn't necessarily the case, but I loved that I was able to have really intelligent and stimulating conversations with women about feminism no matter how they identified.” ThinkingSchoolValuesStrongCommunityEnvironmentFeminismCollegeHigh SchoolIntelligentIndependenceFeminist Author:Julie Zeilinger
“I think about the college graduating classes and high school classes that are coming up now they're in a unique position. I mean they're entering one of the toughest economies of all time. At the same time if they're willing to work really hard the ability they have to learn something much faster than we ever did before is there and it's really a question of are you willing to put in the effort and go that extra mile. Because if you are I think there's actually more opportunities out there.” ThinkingMeanSchoolOpportunityAbilityEffortEconomyCollegeUniqueHigh SchoolAll TimeExtrasGraduates Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“I study harder now than I ever did in college or high school. There's just so much pressure to know what's going on, and I feel like, especially with social media, there's always new information coming out on the teams, the players, the coaches, and the games. You can never be fully read enough, and I'm just constantly reading articles, watching games, and trying to read blogs.” TryingEnoughSchoolReadingStudyPlayerTeamCollegeHigh SchoolSocial MediaCoaches Author:Erin Andrews
“The point of life that I'm currently at is a 'me right now' type of attitude. I am 37 years-old, my son is in college and my daughter is in high school. I'm becoming okay with me. I can't live life as an artist or person being someone that someone else has tried to mold me into. I'm not going to put on a dress that's two sizes too small. I'm custom making my own clothes so that they'll never fit anyone else if you know what I mean.” MeanSchoolArtistAttitudeCollegeSonFitDaughterHigh SchoolOkayLive LifeMy DaughterMy Son Author:Kelly Price
“If I had to guess, I'd estimate that 9 out of 10 Liberty students come to Christian college on their own, with no pressure from their parents or religious leaders. A lot of the students came from secular high schools, and for them, Liberty is a place where they can practice their faith freely without feeling ostracized or mocked.” FeelingsSchoolChristianParentReligiousLibertyLeaderStudentsCollegeHigh SchoolSecular Author:Kevin Roose
“Malcolm Gladwell was on TV talking about wanting to have college football banned. It's interesting just because of him even bringing the topic up. Sooner or later, whether people are for or against it whether they like it or not, that is going to be a discussion that is going to come up. That's how it all starts - someone brings up the inquiry: Should we continue to let our children play Pop Warner, high school, and college football? Ten, 15, 20 years from now, who knows where that conversation is going to be.” PeopleChildrenSchoolInterestingFootballCollegeHigh SchoolOur ChildrenDiscussionChildren Playing Author:Donte Stallworth
“I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.” SchoolFeltCollegeHigh School Author:Mila Kunis
“My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'” YearsFirstsSchoolTalkingHeardCollegeDadHigh SchoolFirst TimeMy DadChampionSeniorSenior Year Author:Ryan Lochte
“I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.” SchoolCollegeHigh School Author:Dave Matthews
“A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.” SchoolLevelsTeacherCollegeHigh SchoolCoaches Author:Matthew McConaughey
“In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.” MeanHomeSchoolUsedTeacherCryCollegeMajorsHigh SchoolMathComing HomeTerrifiedJuniorsHomeworkJunior High Author:Danica McKellar
“I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.” PlaySchoolParentCollegeHigh SchoolQueensSchool Plays Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school when I got a job in a mental hospital. I was working my way through college, and I did a lot of night shifts, and there was nothing to do. So I read like crazy, serious stuff, all the classics.” WayBookCareSchoolJobsNightReadingStuffCrazyCollegeSeriousHigh SchoolMy WayHospitalsNight ShiftAfter High SchoolLife After High School Author:James Patterson
“According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.” YearsFirstsStatesSchoolClassStudyAchieveCollegeStandardsHigh SchoolStartingGradesTexasCurriculumPrepsNinth Grade Author:Rick Perry
“Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.” SchoolLeftTeachCollegePerspectiveHigh SchoolUniversitySignificantElementary SchoolColleges And Universities Author:Dennis Prager
“I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.” FirstsSchoolCollegeSummerHigh SchoolUnionsApprenticeship Author:Christopher Reeve
“After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.” YearsSchoolLeftCommunityCollegeHigh SchoolJournalismCommunity CollegeGedBroadcast Journalism Author:Chris Rock
“Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.” TwoSchoolFunnySportsClassFiguresCollegeHigh SchoolDumbPlusChemistryFigure SkatingBest AthleteFunny SportsFunniest SportsStupid SportsDumb SportsHilarious SportsSilly Stupid Author:Dennis Rodman
“There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.” ArtKidsSchoolClassCreativeTeacherCollegePercentHigh SchoolPassionateSeniorJerseyNew JerseyCreative ArtCamdenSenior Class Author:Jill Scott
“I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.” SchoolStudentsCollegeHigh SchoolListsDeanCollege Days Author:Patti Stanger
“I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.” YearsCountrySchoolJobsMovingOpportunityBornBreakEconomicChangedCollegeMonthsHigh SchoolMy FamilyRaisedFollowingGradesJerseyNew JerseyProspectsNew OpportunityGrades In School Author:J. Michael Straczynski
“Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.” ChildrenSchoolGoalNumbersCareersNew YorkStudentsCollegeReadyHigh SchoolIncreaseGraduates Author:Michael Bloomberg
“I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.” YearsArtSchoolThreeActingCollegeHigh SchoolPerformancesTheaterMusicalPerformingConcentrationThree YearsMinorsManhattanPerforming ArtsMusical Theater Author:Jenna Ushkowitz