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I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.
What's funny about my group of friends is that none of us ever went to the same school. None of us lived in the same part of town.
I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters.
My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.
It's important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections.
Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.
I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.
People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.
All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.
My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.
All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.
A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero.
The phrase "Be Good to Each Other" is very important to me and something that I wish had been said more when I was in high school.
All the things I've read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest book in the world.
I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.
I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD.
I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write songs like, "What I'm going to do if I grow up".
Being in the movie [School of Rock] was really cool. Sometimes we had to do takes over, but Jack always kept us going. He was fun.
There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
After chasing after [Donald] Trump like a lovelorn high school girl the evangelicals are in no position to ask for anything. Ever.
All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
In school, I wasn't like the cool guy who had all the new clothes and had all the girls. I felt like the world saw me as an idiot.
It is the studying that you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows.
Homeopathy is wholly capable of satisfying the therapeutic demands of this age better than any other system or school of medicine.
Cities are broke, there are no jobs, people without a high school diploma and sometimes even with a college degree can't get jobs.
Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.
It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.
Blacks can get into medical school with a lower grade ... If that's true, a Jew should be able to play basketball with a lower net.
I grew up kind of fast. I had a lot of responsibilities-cleaning the house, going to school on my own, making good grades on my own
I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.
What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record?
I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite.
I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.
Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.
I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.
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.
There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.
In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.
In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.
Church was a requirement, there was no choice in the matter, so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.
I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grades and school. That comes first.
I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.
When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.
I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.