The quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers.
At the commencements I attended, graduates were classified by their academic rankings. Outstanding academic performance was noted in the programs and awarded with special honors.
B students work for C students - A students teach.
I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.
When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging.
I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.
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.
I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
I did all right in school, especially in math.
Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.
I was so obsessed with film and actors that I wasn't a very good student. I was always in trouble, but my father would always take us to the movies.
I don't make a lot of mistakes, honestly. I'm an A-student, I'm an Ivy Leaguer. I need those things.
I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
The children of the unemployed achieve less in school and appear to have reduced long-term earnings prospects.
The funniest memory that I can recall about my school days has to be one incident that involved unfinished homework for numerous days. I didn't do any of my homework for days and days at a stretch, and kept stalling my teacher that I was extremely unwell and was under heavy medication.
I got good grades in school, but I'm not sure if I'm smart or if it just means I can study. I've never taken one of those IQ tests, and I don't want to. It's so pointless. As long as you enjoy life and have fun and you're healthy and happy, that's what matters.
The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.
I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.
Test scores aren't perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is a meaningful component that makes a lot of sense.
Football and school don't go together. They just don't. Trying to do both is like trying to do two full-time jobs.
I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.
Economists are evaluated on how intelligent they sound, not on a scientific measure of their knowledge of reality
Well, I don't think that the SAT is a scam.
In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.
And to the C students, I say, you too, can be President of the United States
This president was not a good student in college or law school.