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I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out. — Kent McCord

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst. — Nathan Kress

Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once. — Charlie Brooker

At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning. — Hugh Nibley

The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology. — Murray Bookchin

I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular — Mariah Carey

Your old grade book is a waste of space and time. Don't hesitate; just throw it Out. — Starr Sackstein

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades. — Koichi Tanaka

What use to skip those two grades in grammar school and get such a jump on everybody else,
when the result is to wind up so far behind? — Philip Roth

I mask my hate. I mask my pain. One thing that I can't mask is my dwindling grade point average. -Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears — Chamera Sampson

In the big picture, life is not about grades. Life is about what you choose to study. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

There may not be a placement but definitely, there is a life above grades — Lovely Goyal

If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important. — Tony Dungy

It was always the ones with A-minuses who came around to argue about their grades. — Kelly Oliver

Playing to passion when you can will keep students motivated and working toward mastery. — Starr Sackstein

The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice. — Richard Mottram

You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty. — Jeff Foxworthy

Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful. — Fergie

Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation. — Alfie Kohn

Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice. — Ray Charles

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine. — Karl Kraus

Beginning in 1940, ... questionable grades of (low) malignancy were classed as cancer ... the proportion of 'cancer' cures ... increased rapidly ... — Hardin B. Jones

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me. — Alan Shepard

Cabot Searcy began to care about learning not for the sake of making good grades, but because he still wanted to change the world. — John Corey Whaley

And I thought to myself, 'I haven't had a Schlitz since the third grade! — Robert Earl Keen

We were taught that things like grades, being good enough, money, and doing things the right way, are more important than love. — Marianne Williamson

They say be a good girl, get good grades, be popular. They know nothing about me. — Katie McGarry

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades. — David Nicholls

Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are. — Nicky Gumbel

That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words. — Bobby Bowden

I got fairly good grades, but I was bad at woodwork. They said I tried hard, but the result was hopeless. — Jonathan Stroud

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!! — Bill Watterson

People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer. — Paul Tough

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing. — Merce Cunningham

I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades. — Rachel Weisz

In the best classrooms, grades are only one of many types of feedback provided to students. — Douglas B. Reeves

I had no idea that people thought Jews had horns. Where I came from, Jews had good grades and BMWs. — Sloane Crosley

Successful People studied to gain knowledge not to gain Grades. — Udayveer Singh

Determine a single measure that you can use to grade your progress and success in each area of your life. Refer to it daily. — Brian Tracy

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia. — Fannie Flagg

We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. — Natalie Goldberg

I taught the older grades - five through eight. They required my full attention and kept my mind busy. — Vannetta Chapman

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12. — January Jones

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning. — Chuck Grassley

His body was perfect. His parents were
loaded. His grades were terrible. He was a high school girl's
dream come true. — Elizabeth Nicole

Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas. — W. Edwards Deming

I've been recording myself since grade 10. Back then, it was just really crappy rock stuff. — Ryan Hemsworth

You are not your grade; you are better than that. Grades are indicators of time management and a rate of success. — Anonymous

No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist. — Ananda Coomaraswamy

Most days, I worked harder at faking "normal" than I did on my grades, friendships or the few-and-fleeting relationships I'd had — Jeaniene Frost

The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well. — Jon Appleton

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. — Evelyn Waugh

If your mom was here, she would flip her top over your grades."
"Flip her lid," I muttered. — Gena Showalter

Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. — Suzy Kassem

My mom could afford to put us in a Catholic school for grades one through seven, but not after that. — Ron Funches

Take a child & teach him physics his first 7 grades of education, I submit he'd excel to a savant-like level. Imagine adult focus for 7 yrs. — Ace Antonio Hall

If your gonna drop out of school - tough grades are not your goal - then change your name to Candy and learn to work a pole. — Carlos Mencia

We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes. — Sterling W. Sill

A Gallagher Girl's real grades don't come in pass or fail - they're measured in life or death. — Ally Carter

I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades. — Tatiana Maslany

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right. — Ray Bradbury

Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things. — Max De Pree

There should be a course in first grade on love. — Andy Warhol

I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse. — Aisha Tyler

In seventh grade, false feelings and false faces are the rule. — Samantha Abeel

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory. — Laura Mvula

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians. — Christina Hoff Sommers

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money. — Ben Stein

This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul. — Morrissey

I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths. — Shakira

I flunked three grades before I got out of high school. — Stephen J. Cannell

All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine. — Charles Barkley

I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades. — Tamora Pierce

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning. — Alfie Kohn

I was forced to go to Cotillion when I was in seventh grade. So I learned what fork is what and dance steps. — Chris Black

I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A. — Gayle Forman

I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class. — Cory Booker

You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that. — Barry Sanders

You wouldn't know it by looking, but I had no teeth in first grade. — Kevin Jonas

My parents don't press it but, you know, they're into good grades. — Lucy Deakins

I did not think I would make the grade. — Clive Churchill

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. — Louis C.K.

I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care. — Ernest Cline

I'm stuck in 7th grade & I just keep getting let back — Mariah Carey

I hardly ever missed school, and I always got my work in on time. I was a good student and always got top grades. — Tamsin Egerton

God grades on the Cross not on the curve. — Adrian Rogers

Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades. — Eddy Merckx

Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end — Isaac Mayer Wise

People do not come in grades like butter. — DeBorrah K. Ogans

When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager. — John Taylor Gatto

Sir, I didn't deserve the grade you gave me on this test. Do you know a lower one? — Milton Berle

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task. — Alfie Kohn

Even in my neighborhood, the kids come to me for interviews for their term papers. I ask them later what grades they got, and they're always A-pluses. — Stephanie Kwolek

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football. — Joe Biden

The mystery of the MAGIC BATHROOM will be revealed unto thee. — Peter Rogers

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do. — Fran Lebowitz

My mom and I would make bracelets and necklaces, and I would sell it in the first, second, and third grades because that was my lunch money. — Nikki Reed

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously. — Roz Chast

In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year. — Tea Obreht