Quotes About School

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.

If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy.

If you liked school, you're gonnnnna lovvvvve work!

There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.

I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.

I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later.

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

These teenagers [that drop out of school to take the higher wage jobs] take jobs that would go to unskilled adults, making it harder for those adults to make the transition from welfare to work.

I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.

The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school.

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory.

I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

I played Rugby League at school but once I got to the age of 14, I had to make a choice and decided to stick with boxing.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

I did a lot of stock before I even went to drama school. I sort of went in the back door of drama school and I had joined in a stock company to get my experience.

In 1992, I was in school. I did hear about Harshad Mehta and one of my cousins lost some money in the stock market, but I knew little about it.

A kid cannot learn with an empty stomach.

I remember the first day of school my first year in the classroom. My stomach churned with a mixture of excitement and anxiety. Could I do the job? Could I connect with the kids? Will there be the chemistry to build relationships and get the job done, or will I totally flop?