#grades

A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#complete #earn #education #eight #fitting

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

— Margaret Spellings

#assessment #everything #grades #implementation #integral

Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on! ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#back #become #case #desmond #fall

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. ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#choir #crazy #drama #everybody #everything

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

#almost #class #completely #effect #extra

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

— Richard Dawson

#asked #best #child #does #grades

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

— Annie Dillard

#degrades #love #pleasure #religion #seeker

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

— Koichi Tanaka

#diligent #during #especially #grades #i

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. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#child #different #different way #gifted #good

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#deed #degrades #demolish #ego #eventually