J. B. Priestley Quotes

I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to Oxford; I'd think: 'Where is the justice?' I took A-levels in English, history and theatre studies and got three Bs.

For me, acting was a reward. I had to get good grades in order to act, in order to be on TV. I had to do well in school so I could work. To me, it was like an after-school activity, something to look forward to.

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.

A deep river of must-have school mania runs through the chattering classes. There is, of course, the parental adrenaline rush at suburban cocktail parties that comes from announcing one's son or daughter as an Ivy Leaguer.

Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.

My parents don't press it but, you know, they're into good grades.

Kids flourish if we get them to school every day.

I hated school, but I was a good student. I made straight A's.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

I always have to bring back an all-A report card.

I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics.

I made good grades in school.

I was a good student in school.

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

I have this philosophy that A and B students work for C students.

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.

I coasted through high school. I was 203rd in a class of 987.

I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.

I wasn't a great student. My brother is 18 months older than me, so he sort of forged the way for me at school.