Jay-Z Quotes

I wasn't a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with music, it didn't really interest me.

I wasn't a troublemaker. I wasn't impertinent. The teachers liked me. But year after year, the comments on my report cards basically came down to a single point, and it was 100% accurate: I seemed to get nothing whatsoever out of all those long hours spent in the classroom.

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there.

We need a serious intellectual culture in schools.

I used to be a reasonably good student.

I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it's hard to imagine that happening if they don't have some control over their attention.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

I believe education is much more important than we assume.

I'm a good student. Just trying to learn as much as possible is how I picked up so many languages.

I grew up in this house of intellectuals, and for me, it wasn't, like, a negative thing. And what I've discovered is, for a lot of people, it is. But I think knowing history, liking to talk about ideas - like, I just genuinely like to geek out and go on these intellectual thought journeys.

I was a really good student, first, second grade, third grade, and then fourth grade a little bit. And then I don't know what happened. I became a very terrible student. I wish I took it more serious.

I was a good student. I started college at 16 years old and did okay.

I was a good student and stuff like that.

Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.

I was in school studying International Studies and Sociology. I was really into what was going on in school. I was affected by the ideas and engaged as a student, but not disciplined or motivated enough to do the work. That was a fear of mine for a while, that nothing was motivating.

When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.

One way to ensure that all kids will be successful in school and life is by focusing on literacy by the end of the third grade.

And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn't say the ones at my school were less capable. They could've been there.

I grew up on Harvard Square and I watched 50-year old men walking around with green book bags slung over their shoulders going for their fourth PhD, never having left the world of academia to alleged reality.

I was very lucky to be born into a very academic family. I was well-read, well-trained in mathematics. I had lots of advantages to start with.

Usually you have a feel for what a kid's abilities are by the end of their sophomore year.

It's good to have a good teacher, but you always need a pretty good student.