“No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.” StatesProblemSchoolPoliticsWishAttentionHigh SchoolPaidCommunicateLatinNo ProblemLatin AmericaHead Of StateLatin American Author:Dan Quayle
“Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What's the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT's coachable, the more problems you have with it.” MenUseProblemSchoolAcceptingCollegeHigh SchoolSatGrades Author:John Katzman
“Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.” WantProblemSchoolPovertyPleaseHigh SchoolWelfareTemporary Author:Alexis De Veaux
“Any high school boy or girl knows how to calculate the force with which a stone he or she throws will hit someone in the face, but nothing in those equations they use will tell them whether or not to throw it...To solve the problem of values we must know what is valuable. Consciousness is the most valuable commodity...To bring values into science, we need to connect science with what is valuable consciousness.” KnowsNeedsUseProblemSchoolFacesValuesGirlForceConsciousnessBoysKnow HowHigh SchoolStonesValuableSolveCommodityEquations Author:Ravi Gomatam
“Actually, I was lucky enough; I was a heavyweight, so making weight for me was never that much of a problem in high school. Now, it would just be near impossible, because I'm a little heavier.” LittlesEnoughProblemSchoolImpossibleLuckyHigh SchoolWeightNflHeavyweights Author:Alex Mack
“The zooming wealth of the top 1 percent is a problem, but it's not nearly as big a problem as the tens of millions of Americans who have dropped out of high school or college. It's not nearly as big a problem as the 40 percent of children who are born out of wedlock. It's not nearly as big a problem as the nation's stagnant human capital, its stagnant social mobility and the disorganized social fabric for the bottom 50 percent.” HumansChildrenProblemBigsSchoolNationsSocialBornWealthEducationPovertyMillionsCollegePercentHigh SchoolBottomFabricStagnantMobilityWedlockDisorganizedSocial Mobility Author:David Brooks
“When I was in high school, I was always really envious of those girls who seemed to have everything: the perfect hair, perfect clothes, perfect boyfriend, perfect life. It wasn't until I was older that I realized that nobody's life is perfect, and that those girls probably had a lot of the same problems I did.” ProblemSchoolLife IsGirlPerfectHairClothesHigh SchoolI RealizedEnviousPerfect Life Author:Sarah Dessen
“In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't finish high school!” ProblemKidsSchoolHigh SchoolIncreaseInequalityPrimariesQuartersSecondary Education Author:Milton Friedman
“It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.” HardProblemSchoolDifficultEducationTeachingStudentsHigh SchoolAgingMathematicalTeenagerEncountersConvinceTeenageGeometryAlgebraTeenage GirlTeenage YearsHigh School Students Author:E. W. Howe
“America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school.” ProblemKidsSchoolAmericaTerriblePercentHigh SchoolThirdsEducationalMinoritiesFinishingYoungstersFinishing School Author:Colin Powell
“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
“I am secretive. Always have been. And one way that secrecy manifested in my early life was that I was adept at juggling multiple social realities: I could get by no problem in many social arenas (including that of high school), but also felt alienated and totally uninspired by everything that happened there.” WayHas BeensProblemRealitySchoolSocialFeltHappenedHigh SchoolIncludingOne WayMultipleNo ProblemArenaSecrecySecretiveJugglingAdeptEarly LifeUninspired Author:Melissa Febos
“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
“There is actually a huge suicide problem in Palo Alto schools, so obviously not all is well in paradise. High expectations, and the pressure to achieve in a highly competitive world are too much for a lot of very promising young people. There have been something like ten youth suicides in Palo Alto in the past ten years. They usually step in front of the train that runs by the high school.” PeopleWorldProblemRunningSchoolPastAchieveYouthExpectationsHigh SchoolSuicideTrainHigh Expectations Author:James Franco
“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 could never stand big-mouthed types. I had problems with that at high school. Ive still got the scars on my fists from the teeth of the guys I hit so that theyd finally shut up. I came from England to Canada, of course, and was often ridiculed because I had a strange accent. I was expelled from school and it was a long time before I could control myself. But the impulse remained: a punch in the mouth to get some peace and quiet.” LongProblemSchoolGuyStrangeQuietHigh SchoolImpulseScarShut UpPeace And Quiet Author:Lennox Lewis
“I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o'clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.” WaySometimesHelpingProblemSchoolFallThreeClassSpringHigh SchoolSeasonsEightMilesWeatherClockFarmsHarvestHorsebackBad Weather Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.” PeopleDifferentProblemKidsSchoolAsksWaitingCollegeHigh SchoolNeighborhoodBeing DifferentAmbassadorsDealing With Problems Author:Andrew Young
“The fact was, by the time she got to high school, being weird and proud of it was an asset. Suddenly cool, Blue could've happily had any number of friends. And she had tried. But the problem with being weird was that everyone else was 'normal'".” FactsProblemSchoolNumbersProudNormalHigh SchoolBlueAssetsBeing Weird Book:The Raven Boys Source: The Raven Boys
“I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayKindMadeStillsDifferentProblemSchoolSeeingSecurityCollegeOffersHigh SchoolAimSafetyTrainScriptsBrandsParksGutsDifferent KindsNew WaysTypicalAmusementVowGritRailLoopsPredictabilityAmusement Parks Book:Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World Source: Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“Usually the bullies are the most insecure. I was bullied and it's hard, you feel like high schools never going to be over. Its four years of your life and you just have to remember the person picking on you has their own problems and their own issues. And you're going to be ok.” FeelsYearsPersonsHardProblemSchoolRememberIssuesFourHigh SchoolOver ItBullyingFour YearsInsecureBullyBullied Author:Megan Fox
“Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent of African-American or Latino kids dropping out of high school, it doesn't really matter what you do in terms of affirmative action. Those kids aren't going to college.” IfsLongMatterProblemKidsActionSchoolAmericaTermRaceCollegeSolutionsPercentHigh SchoolAfrican AmericanLong TermDroppingLatinoAffirmative ActionAffirmativeRace In AmericaGoing To CollegeDropping Out Author:Barack Obama