“I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.” GivingTryingWellsEnoughSchoolFormLeftEasyBreakSupportTroubleHigh SchoolTwentiesForgottenOur FamilyCredence Author:Julia Leigh
“Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy?” WantGivingDifferentSchoolJobsChoicesThreeAsksGivenSupportEconomyWeekSubjectsStudentsHigh SchoolTestsTwentiesSpendingRidiculousScoreGraduatesConsideringProbabilitySalaryProjectionDifferent JobsAllocationHigh School StudentsTest Scores Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high school from those in junior high, and those who are twenty from those who are twenty-five. There are middle-middle-age groups, late-middle-age groups, and old-age groups - as though people with five years between them could not possibly have anything in common.” PeopleYearsAgeTodaySchoolSocialCommonFiveGroupsMiddleLimitsLateHigh SchoolTwentiesOld AgeFive YearsDividesIsolatedSaneFifteenSeventiesSegregationMiddle AgesJuniorsTwenty FiveFifteen YearsJunior HighSocial Groups Author:Suzanne Gordon
“If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime.” IfsYearsWellsKindSelfEnoughSchoolPastLinesRiskTaughtEgoClothesHigh SchoolTwentiesPreparedLifetimeTortureBe KindBiographiesPreservationFlatteringSelf PreservationEdited Author:Sharyn McCrumb
“I went to a Presbyterian college, you know, I was in... all the way, and so I remember doing my first sermon when I was 17, I was in high school. It wasn't a full twenty-five minute sermon, but for like ten minutes I got up and they let me do that, and it was on faith.” KnowsWayFirstsSchoolRememberFiveMinutesCollegeTenHigh SchoolLet MeTwentiesSermonsFive MinutesTwenty FivePresbyterians Author:Woody Harrelson
“In my family we got up in the mornings around three o'clock and went out to the barns to bring the cows in and milk. In high school I milked about twenty cows every morning and about twenty in the afternoon when I got home. I have wonderful memories from those early days when my parent's influence was so strong.” HomeSchoolThreeStrongParentMemoriesMorningWonderfulInfluenceHigh SchoolMy FamilyTwentiesClockAfternoonMilkCowsEvery MorningBarnsWonderful Memories Author:Billy Graham
“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
“I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.” SchoolTeamSixHigh SchoolTwentiesJuniorsFlipTrampolines Author:Steven Tyler
“I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.” YearsRealDoneSchoolNightThreeBoysWeekTenSixMarriedHigh SchoolTwentiesSevenCuriosityLibraryAncientEgyptFind MeLibrarianDinosaursAncient EgyptSix Year Olds Author:Ray Bradbury
“Answers to Frequently Asked Questions: Yes. Yes. No. One time in high school. Three times in my twenties. Rocks no salt. Yes. Four. Never. And how dare you! I will take no further questions.” SchoolThreeAnswersFourRocksHigh SchoolTwentiesDareOne TimeSaltThree Times Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“It’s a world where high school students look roughly twenty-four.” WorldLooksSchoolFourStudentsHigh SchoolTwentiesHigh School Students Author:Jane Lynch