“All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.” MotherMy FriendsLet MeGradesConcertsLet Me Go Author:Sarah Paulson
“I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.” ChildrenTwoSchoolTogetherMotherFightingFatherLevelsClassMiddleBrotherGrewGrew UpMy FamilySevenGradesMiddle ClassMiddle Class FamilyTwo Sisters Author:Muhammad Yunus
“I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.” SchoolMotherCollegeDaughterHigh SchoolGradesSophomore Author:Thomas Friedman
“My mother only had a third grade education, was illiterate, worked as a domestic 2 to 3 jobs at a time, because she didn't want to be on welfare, because she never saw people who went on welfare come off of welfare, and she just didn't want to have her life controlled in that fashion.” PeopleWantJobsMotherSawsFashionThirdsWelfareGradesControlledIlliterateThird Grade Author:Benjamin Carson
“My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.” SchoolMotherFatherTeacherGradesSchool TeachersGrades In SchoolEighth Grade Author:Gordon Bell
“I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. My mother was a single mom, putting my three sisters through college, and I was such a bad student that I knew I had no right to take her money. But I loved being in classes and learning. I took in a huge amount of what I learned, but I had a feeling of always being behind and being in trouble.” KindFeelingsSchoolMotherThreeBehindsClassTroubleStudentsCollegeHugeMomAmountHigh SchoolGradesSingle MomThree Sisters Author:Louis C. K.
“My third grade teacher called my mother and said, 'Ms. Cox, your son is going to end up in New Orleans in a dress if we don't get him into therapy.' And wouldn't you know, just last week I spoke at Tulane University, and I wore a lovely green and black dress.” IfsKnowsSaidEndsLastsMotherBlackTeacherWeekSonThirdsDressesGreenUniversityLovelyTherapyGradesSpokesNew OrleansYour SonThird Grade Author:Laverne Cox
“When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.” FirstsKindBookMotherReadingSidesMiddleSummerAdultsLibraryListsBoredGradesCopiesFrustratedMidnightSummer Reading Author:Lauren DeStefano
“My mothers dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.” IfsProblemMotherGuyCommunityMastersBrokenDadGradesMechanicMagicianThat GuyOur CommunityCarpenterMasonsPlumberEighth GradeElectricianDirty Jobs Author:Mike Rowe
“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.” EndsMovingJoyMotherPurposeUnderstandingHoursRoomsNumbersHalfDesignBuildingProjectsSummerModelsStructureSizeFinishedTinyGradesDevicesNutsMetalsAirplaneFourthPlasticCriteriaLiving RoomBoltsKindergartenFourth GradeNuts And BoltsMoving PartsHappy HourWarships Author:Steven Chu