Jerrod Carmichael Quotes

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.

I never learned to study in studio school, so I had to teach myself to study.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.

If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.

I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I could find. Formal chemistry at school seemed boring by comparison, and my performance was routine. In contrast, I did spectacularly well in mathematics and sailed through classes and exams with ease.

My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.

When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'

No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory

Sometimes you just need words on a page to memorize.

I'm definitely a note taker.

I could never understand why other kids wanted to truant - my education here gave me everything. It's the place where I really got to flourish.

I consider myself a reasonably intelligent guy. Made straight A's in high school (except for driver's ed and typing).

Some friends of mine had parents who made school a treat, a gift - not something to be endured.

I think school is so important. I was good student. A rebel, but I did well in my studies. I don't close myself to anything. I liked reading and I still love learning. I loved history and German.

Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke

Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.