Tavi Gevinson Quotes

For me, high school was the one place where I knew my friends were gonna be, so I was there. I didn't like it, I wasn't involved in things, and they didn't teach me anything that I needed to know. But my mom said I had to go, and so I went.

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

I wanted to go to regular high school - it looked like a lot of fun.

I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.

Boarding school is a wicked thing.

I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.

I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.

I went to high school in Minnesota.

When I was 11, I had just started my comprehensive school.

I was a teenager, and I started to go to high school, and it was a disaster!

I went to high school in Orange County.

Middle and high school sucked.

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.

Growing up in college, in high school, I was the focal point.

I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society.

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.

The American idea that everyone graduates high school at 18 is a good one.

I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world.

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school.

There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.

I hated high school. It was a prison.