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.

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.

Music is part of us and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

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

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.

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.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high though I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?

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!

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.

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

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.

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

I think that anybody that stays in school gets good grades pays the price I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education they should be able to do that.

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.

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.

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