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" All of the things an arts education gives a young person enhance leadership skills and help raise grades. "
Josh Groban
" A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don't offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk managers or parents who parent like risk managers. "
Nancy Gibbs
" As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good. "
Savannah Guthrie
" Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros. "
Rebecca Lobo
" Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild. "
Dennis Wilson
" 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
" Despite girls' sparkling resumes - including rates of college enrollment and high school grades that outstrip boys - sexism is a barrier that still leaves girls ambivalent about power. Opening doors has not amounted to ambition to lead for many of them, even those with options, networks, and resources. "
Rachel Simmons
" Even in my neighborhood, the kids come to me for interviews for their term papers. I ask them later what grades they got, and they're always A-pluses. "
Stephanie Kwolek
" Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians. "
Christina Hoff Sommers
" 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
" Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools. But there's a problem with the grade emphasis. Math or science graduates earn more than students majoring in the humanities. "
Amity Shlaes
" Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager. "
John Taylor Gatto
" Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful. "
Fergie
" Growing up, I tried to be involved in school a lot, and I had good grades. I was an active kid, and I loved being social. "
Cassadee Pope
" Having been kept pretty strict in prep schools, I guess I couldn't cope with all the freedom at Yale. I had a wild, wonderful time, got abysmal grades and was bounced out in my freshman year. I then came back the following fall as a repeating freshman, lasted until April and got bounced out again - for the same reason. "
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
" I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked. "
Richard Dawson
" I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were science subjects. The interest in science didn't wear off, but I found other interests. "
Emun Elliott
" I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up. "
Keith Hernandez
" I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths. "
Shakira
" I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades. "
Koichi Tanaka
" I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades. "
Duffy Daugherty
" I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life. "
A. James Clark
" I didn't have good grades until I started dancing, because I didn't try - I didn't see the point. Once I realized why I wanted to go to college, I started to study and do well. I knew I had to have a certain GPA to get in. "
Kyle Abraham
" 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
" I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct a graphic that grades badness and madness levels? Interesting idea. "
James Frain
" I don't think anyone can accept us being 51st in the country dealing with fourth-grade math scores and reading scores in the fourth and sixth grades that are close to the bottom. That's not acceptable. It's not acceptable to the people of Alabama. "
Robert J. Bentley
" I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history. "
Helmut Kohl
" I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out. "
Kent McCord
" I flunked three grades before I got out of high school. "
Stephen J. Cannell
" If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will. "
Stockwell Day
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