Quotes About Education

Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And this is much better than setting fires, so keep it up.' That made me a writer.

The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.

I use a note-taking system I learned in history class in eleventh grade.

There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

I remember in third grade, I asked my mom, 'How does an engine work?' So my mom bought me a book.

I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.

I've worked since I was in second grade.

I think I only started to speak to people in grade four.

I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.

I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.

If you get behind in first grade, then you're behind every grade from then on.

In fifth grade, we did 10 minutes on slavery and 40 minutes on Abraham Lincoln, and in 10th grade you might do 10 minutes on the civil rights era and 40 minutes on Martin Luther King, and that's it.

When I was in seventh grade, I was bored out of my mind. We seemed to be learning the same things over and over in science and math, and two of the boys in my class were allowed to move ahead into these advanced classes, but I wasn't allowed because I was a girl.

My parents were sharecrop farm kids with no education - seventh, eighth grade.

I didn't go to the 12th grade... I stopped at 11.

In five years, I completed grade school. Even when I was a young boy, I had a plan for my life.

In sixth or seventh grade, my teacher assigned me to write and sing a song. I remember sitting at the piano in my living room, trying to get that song perfect. That was the moment I realized I really love doing this.

I've been inside the Anne Frank house. You've only read about Anne Frank in grade school. I've been in it. I've seen the diary. Things that teachers couldn't teach you.

I started writing poetry when I was in the fifth grade, just rhyming in class.

I disagreed with my teachers on pretty much everything, including what grades I was going to get at A-level. I was sure I'd pass, they were convinced I'd fail.

I made good grades in school.

I kind of always did get good grades.

I wanted to do animation, so for lack of available career counselling, took up Bachelor's in Computer Science, but managed to get only C grades.