Grades Quotes - page 7

Further, it will not be amiss to distinguish the three kinds and, as it were, grades of ambition in mankind. (Francis Bacon)
We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness. View quote
António Damásio
We must not let them go into the fourth and fifth grades not knowing how to read. View quote
Ray Bradbury
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. View quote
Ray Bradbury
The elimination of conventional tests... is necessary because, as soon as they are used as judgement-making instruments, the whole process of schooling shifts from education to training intended to produce passing grades on tests. View quote
Neil Postman
I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades. View quote
Tamora Pierce
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. View quote
J. C. Watts
Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation. View quote
Alfie Kohn
If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning. View quote
Alfie Kohn
..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. View quote
Peter McWilliams
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. (Bill Gates)
I don't want to be a big shot. From head to toes, Roberto Clemente is good as Richard Nixon. I believe that. And I think that every man should believe that about himself. I am not dumb. I went to school. I made grades. But when I came here, I couldn't speak English. All I could say was, 'Me, Roberto Clemente.' Some of them laugh and say it sounded like, 'Me Tarzan, you Jane. View quote
Roberto Clemente
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. View quote
Mark Twain
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. View quote
Ben Stein
Universal History exhibits the gradation in the development of that principle whose substantial purport is the consciousness of Freedom. The analysis of the successive grades, in their abstract form, belongs to Logic; in their concrete aspect to the Philosophy of Spirit. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We must give our children the equal opportunity to develop their minds and bodies to the fullest. We will continue, even expand, the conditional cash transfers (or CCT's) to the poorest families so that their children will have the means to get to school and the nutrition to support a healthy brain - and body. We must cut down drastically that 34% drop-out rate in primary grades. View quote
Francis Escudero
An Ashram has in it disciples and initiates at all points of evolutionary development, and of all grades and degrees; these all work together in perfect unison, and yet - within their differentiated ranks, for each degree stands alone, yet united with all the others - with their own established rapport, their coded telepathic interplay, and a shared occult secrecy and silence, which guard the secrets and knowledges of one grade from another and from the unready. View quote
Alice Bailey