#grades

Would I cheat to save my soul? No. But to save my G.P.A.? Yes. ↗

— Julie Anne Peters

#grades #julie-anne-peters #luna #regan #cheating

I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#classroom #disobey #get #grades #had

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#base #believer #early #first #get

A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#complete #earn #education #eight #fitting

Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#assessment #everything #grades #implementation #integral

Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on! ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#back #become #case #desmond #fall

I was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not a partier. I was too Type A and crazy about my grades, but I was still there at everything. ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#choir #crazy #drama #everybody #everything

Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#almost #class #completely #effect #extra

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked. ↗

— Richard Dawson

#asked #best #child #does #grades

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#degrades #love #pleasure #religion #seeker