#grade

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#ads #anyone #applications #book #children

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

— Clyde Tombaugh

#by the time #could #country #every #grade

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#american history #colony #crazy #doing #drove

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. ↗

— Simone Weil

#debases #degrades #entire #human #human being

Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to pass laws which would force ISPs to block or degrade BitTorrent traffic, too. Personally, I think this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#bank #because #block #blocking #closing

I'd always known that when you went through one of these doors, you went to another planet, and that that other planet might be so far away, you couldn't fly there in spaceship in a million years. Somehow, the whole thing had never seemed strange before today. ↗

— Mary G. Thompson

#kids-sci-fi #kids-science-fiction #middle-grade #middle-grade-sci-fi #middle-grade-science-fiction

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle. ↗

— Dorothy Malone

#grade #grade school #high #high school #i

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. ↗

— Barack Obama

#desire #education #get #grades #investing

I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#always #because #bring #cleared #early

I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac. ↗

— Ray Liotta

#everyone #fight #grade #i #life