John Waters Quotes

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.

I want to graduate high school, so it's very important to me, and I'll be focusing hard on that as well.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.

I had no interest in high school besides art.

There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

I felt I ought not to be wasting time, and I hurried to graduate from high school to enroll at UCSD. I also hurried to finish college, to go on to higher studies. By the time I was in my teens, I had a strong sense of mission, wanting to discover something important or solve a major problem in biology or medicine.

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.

I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Bard.

Schooling is so important.

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

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

Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.