Quotes about Grades

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager. Votes: 6

Successful People studied to gain knowledge not to gain Grades. Votes: 4

I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades. Votes: 4

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning. Votes: 4

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible. Votes: 4

Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation. Votes: 3

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 didnt wear off, but I found other interests. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

My first dunk was actually in sixth grade. Votes: 2

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years. Votes: 2

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades. Votes: 2

You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that. Votes: 2

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle. Votes: 2

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade. Votes: 2

I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice. Votes: 2

By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory. Votes: 2

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did. Votes: 2

I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape. Votes: 2

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football. Votes: 2

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. Votes: 2

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be. Votes: 2

As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte. Votes: 2

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have. Votes: 2

We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products. Votes: 2

There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning. Votes: 2

When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50. Votes: 2

You can take power from others; you can steal it. It is not a very high-grade power. It will give you a certain amount of access to a better life; but it corrupts the individual. Votes: 2

It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade. Votes: 2

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education. Votes: 2

Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy. Votes: 2

I wasn't the kind of kid who would get A's without even trying. I had to work to get good grades, but I was very organised about it because I always wanted to do well at everything I did. I'm very competitive. Votes: 2

I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades. Votes: 2

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school. I was the type to get good grades; I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there's no school for rap. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

You know, I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college. Votes: 2

As educators, we are only as effective as what we know. If we have no working knowledge of what students studied in previous years, how can we build on their learning? If we have no insight into the curriculum in later grades, how can we prepare learners for future classes? Votes: 2

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. Votes: 2

I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes. Votes: 2

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam. Votes: 2

When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that. Votes: 2

I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully! Votes: 2

I made good grades in school. Votes: 0

Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades. Votes: 0

God grades on the Cross not on the curve. Votes: 0

I flunked three grades before I got out of high school. Votes: 0

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades. Votes: 0

We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes. Votes: 0

My parents don't press it but, you know, they're into good grades. Votes: 0

I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care. Votes: 0

Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas. Votes: 0

My priority is not about grades. I yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom. Votes: 0

My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom. Votes: 0

Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice. Votes: 0

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. Votes: 0

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it. Votes: 0

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades. Votes: 0

In the best classrooms, grades are only one of many types of feedback provided to students. Votes: 0

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine. Votes: 0

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked. Votes: 0

My parents were supportive. I didn't have good grades, but they could tell I wasn't lazy. Votes: 0

I was too worried about the grades and I should have been more worried about learning. Votes: 0

I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy. Votes: 0

Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything. Votes: 0

When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning. Votes: 0

Beginning in 1940,...questionable grades of (low) malignancy were classed as cancer. ...the proportion of 'cancer' cures...increased rapidly... Votes: 0

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out. Votes: 0

If your mom was here, she would flip her top over your grades." "Flip her lid," I muttered. Votes: 0

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians. Votes: 0

I was voted valedictorian, and at my school it wasn't based on grades; that was the popular vote. Votes: 0

A Gallagher Girl's real grades don’t come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death. Votes: 0

In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year. Votes: 0

Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end Votes: 0

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing. Votes: 0

All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine. Votes: 0

I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades. Votes: 0

Wisdom is not measured by age ,Intelligence is not measured by grades ,Personality is not measured by what others say Votes: 0

The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well. Votes: 0

People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer. Votes: 0

If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important. Votes: 0

I come from a place where people get high, the grades get low, and if someone has a secret EVERYONE KNOWS. Votes: 0

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia. Votes: 0

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. Votes: 0

I got fairly good grades, but I was bad at woodwork. They said I tried hard, but the result was hopeless. Votes: 0

I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades. Votes: 0

Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons). Votes: 0

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning. Votes: 0

The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology. Votes: 0

Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once. Votes: 0

We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades. Votes: 0

Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are. Votes: 0

At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning. Votes: 0

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. Votes: 0

The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian. Votes: 0

In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school. Votes: 0

Take a child & teach him physics his first 7 grades of education, I submit he'd excel to a savant-like level. Imagine adult focus for 7 yrs. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst." Votes: 0

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right. Votes: 0

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst. Votes: 0

We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness. Votes: 0

I hardly ever missed school, and I always got my work in on time. I was a good student and always got top grades. Votes: 0

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory. Votes: 0

My kids going to school and teachers denying my kids the grades that they should have once they found out that I was their father. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My mom and I would make bracelets and necklaces, and I would sell it in the first, second, and third grades because that was my lunch money. Votes: 0

If your gonna drop out of school - tough grades are not your goal - then change your name to Candy and learn to work a pole. Votes: 0

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed. Votes: 0

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!! Votes: 0

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). Votes: 0

I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades. Votes: 0

My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all? Votes: 0

I was an English major in college, though I ended up getting my degree in "General Stduies" because my grades were too bad to qualify for an English degree. Votes: 0

As a child, I tried to play by the rules. I got very good grades in school; I was an Eagle Scout; and I believed in all of it. Votes: 0

Thing is, I wasn't in the library, didn't study too much, didn't get the best grades, but honestly, I didn't party a lot either. I stayed in a lot. Votes: 0

That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words. Votes: 0

The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students. Votes: 0

I have fond memories of my childhood. I spent five wonderful years on a popular TV show, but I didn't have a normal childhood. I was tutored for grades 4-11. Votes: 0

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval. Votes: 0

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself. Votes: 0

I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's. Votes: 0

I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it. Votes: 0

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The pressure on kids is high to get good grades. In my time, no one cared about it. My father looked at them but he didn't really make much fuss about them. Votes: 0

..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I had my first apartment when I was 16. I got good grades, so my friends would be able to come over to 'study.' We'd party, and they'd cheat off me. Everybody won! Votes: 0

It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it didn't matter. In my heart and head, I was a fraud. Votes: 0

For me, sports is a big part of my life. It helped me through high school. It helped me get better grades, because if you don't have good grades, you can't play sports. Votes: 0

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades. Votes: 0

I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being a member of the team was great training in critical analysis, organization, and logic. Votes: 0

In presidential campaign I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college, also. If I were plagiarizing consistently, my grades would have been better. Votes: 0

Angela Duckworth has shown how important grit and perseverance are to lifetime outcomes. College students who report that they finish whatever they begin have higher grades than their peers, even ones with higher SATs. Votes: 0

Logically, you should go to school, get good grades, go to college, get a good degree, go into the workplace, then work hard and be happy. The only problem is that happiness isn't logical. Votes: 0

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them. Votes: 0

Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down,does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy. Votes: 0

I have always survived with comedy, in that I grew up very dyslexic and did not get good grades. I always thought I was dumb, and there are many people out there that would agree Votes: 0

I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents. Votes: 0

I got really bad grades, so I'd hide my report card from my dad. My mom was in on it, too, because she knew he'd be furious. I probably would've gone to boot camp. Seriously. Votes: 0