Don Johnson Quotes

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.

Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.

I didn't really have a plan of attack when I got in college.

Certainly, in college, I had no idea what I wanted to do, I studied art history and had a great time, but I didn't have any sort of career aspirations.

High school dropout rates nationally - Not enough is being done on this issue.

To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.

I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.

I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.

I treaded water academically and spent much of my summertime as a camp counselor. It seemed a fun thing to do for a person in no way prepared to commit to a career path.

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me.

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.

I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.

I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English.

I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.

I don't know what would I do in future; I'll decide it later.

I just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world.

I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.

It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility.

I got alright GCSEs, but I was lost. I didn't know what to do, whether to continue with education, go to uni, go to art school - then again, I was like, 'Maybe I should just go and get a job, start early and make money.'

I can't say that dropping out of school at 16 to join the Marines was my best idea. On the other hand, maybe it was. Who knows?

I did drop out of school.

If that is your route, to go to university and get a job that way, that is fantastic.