#grades

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great). ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#believe #cambridge #couple #fiction #first

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#after #being #classified #day #elected

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

— Merce Cunningham

#give #grades #had #i #interested

If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities? ↗

— Harold Ford

#attend #challenging #contributions #country #enrichment

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

#dad #grades #gym #health #i

Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#suffering

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. ↗

— George Sand

#degrades #dispense #hardens #receive #those

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

#finish #five #get #glad #grades

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

#best #got #grades #i #into

You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts. ↗

— Julie Taymor

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