“I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.” YearsSchoolSixHigh SchoolClassicSix Year OldsSchool Experience Author:Thomas Ian Nicholas
“I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends.” SchoolMonthsSixHigh SchoolFinishedHungSix Months Author:Devon Sawa
“There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.” YearsPlayBigsKidsSchoolYoungFourFeetPeriodsSixHigh SchoolAdultsYeahLawyer Author:Jason Segel
“You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.” MenFirstsKidsSchoolIndividualRealizingFiveSix Author:Yelawolf
“In 2006, the number of children in targeted school choice programs nationwide will reach six digits for the first time, representing a 40 percent increase in the number of children in targeted school choice programs and an even bigger increase in the amount of public funding.” FirstsChildrenSchoolChoicesNumbersAmountSixPercentFirst TimeProgramBiggerIncreaseFundingRepresentingSchool Choice Author:Clint Bolick
“My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.” IfsBigsRunningSchoolWaitingWalksSixLateRiversSticksMilesFarmsMiles AwayGorges Author:Haile Gebrselassie
“Everybody thinks that you go to Africa and you build a school, or you teach English, or you build a hospital. But actually all you need to do is play football with kids for six months and then after they've trusted you, you tell them about the truth of Aids, and that their grandmother didn't die from witchcraft, she died from Aids. And that's the biggest difference you can make.” ThinkingNeedsPlayKidsSchoolDiesDifferencesTeachFootballMonthsSixDiedAidsGrandmotherHospitalsTrustedSix MonthsWitchcraft Author:Tom Hiddleston
“Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.” PeopleHomeSchoolHoursKnownFourDisciplineSixTwentiesActiveIntercourse Author:Georg Brandes
“I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.” ThinkingYearsSchoolFiveFourSixSevenSeven Years Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“I was a defensive lineman coming out of high school who was considered amongst the top maybe the top six guys, top five guys, and wanted to prove to my team that I was going to be a top guy going into college.” WantedSchoolGuyFiveTeamCollegeProveSixHigh SchoolComing OutLineman Author:Ndamukong Suh
“I was really lucky. I had a really great opportunity. I went to an all girls, very small private school from seventh grade all the way to graduating. It was so wonderful because the focus was school at school...and during the week I could be that nerdy bookworm of a girl, and do six hours of homework at night.” WaySchoolNightGirlOpportunityHoursFocusWonderfulWeekLuckySixGradesGraduatesReally GreatHomeworkGreat OpportunityNerdyPrivate SchoolSeventh GradeBookworms Author:Sophia Bush
“I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe the schools create (the achievement gap), but our responsibility is not to add to it. We won't eliminate the gap until the community makes education a priority, but the schools can't wait for the community to do its part.” BelieveSchoolWaitingCommunityHoursResponsibilityChildhoodStudentsCommunicationAchievementSixAddDon't BelievePrioritiesPlusGapsEarly ChildhoodAchievement Gap Author:Bill Vaughan
“My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.” WayWantIdeasHardSchoolHoursCollegeHard WorkMomSixMy MomComplainingTennisScholarship Author:Dakota Fanning
“I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.” CharacterAgeSchoolForceAirMilitaryDisciplineSixStrength Of CharacterAir ForceMilitary School Author:Larry Hagman