I always appreciated my teachers. When I was 16, I gave them the greatest gift I could think of. I dropped out of school.

Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.

I would be jokesmithing. I had files with tons of disses that I would try to write as I was on the train going to school.

Whether you're a veteran like me or a high school athlete, the most important thing you can do is keep your body healthy.

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.

I grew up with Chief Keef and Lil Reese. We all lived in the same environment, I went to school with them and everything.

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?

I've always been vertically challenged. I never grew at all until my junior year of high school-if you call that growing.

I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

I like going to schools and telling classes that when I was a child, I failed every "will this kid become a writer" test.

If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

California is like the hot blond high school chick who's been getting by on her looks, but now she's 45 and falling apart.

All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me.

I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.

There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.

Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads.

My days are so busy with school and football, it's not often that I get out, anyway. But when I do, I like to meet people.

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

I wasn't really sold on being an artist until high school, my senior year. I was going to do the college thing originally.

I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.

For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to ‘sell’ the learning to them.

I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body.

I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong.

That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.

The farther away you get from being inside the school system the more of a learning curve it becomes to understand TikTok.

I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.

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.

I know, as an overachiever straight-A student in school, I always responded to smart, strong, women represented on screen.

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.

It appears that the Soviets are now going to allow prayer in school. One wonders how soon the United States will catch up.

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.

I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get a scholarship.

I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

We've got to go to the people with bold ideas and candidates of conviction - we've got to be hotter than high school love.

I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools.

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it, you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?

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