Lydia Ko Quotes

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

I try to miss as little school as possible.

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

I hardly went to school.

You're not on scholarship for school, and it sounds crazy when a student-athlete says that, but that's - those are the things coaches tell them every day: 'You're not on scholarship for school.'

It is a lot of work when you have to go to school and then try to improve your game at the same time.

Truancy rates are directly correlated to low graduation rates.

My son, he understands being an athlete and being a student-athlete and how important it is that those two things go hand in hand.

I was an average student, who took active interest in athletics.

My attendance in school was 30 per cent. I was always travelling with my parents.

College, for me, was more about wrestling than actually going to classes.

It's not an easy thing to manage - school and being in a band.

[My son] Michael came along and he played a little bit of everything. He went to Georgia Tech on a golf scholarship.

I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.

When I was a kid I was not a good student. I went to the University of Colarado, my grades were poor. I was asked to leave after a year. What I really wanted to do was to be an artist.

I'm taking a pretty light load. I'm doing well. Gideon and Jason are both in school too, so we find time between shows to get work done, and during the day. I really like Columbia. Unlike high school, I don't feel any pressure to get straight-As. I just like learning.

I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult life living on student wages, then after I got my MA and started teaching, I lived on teacher's wages, which isn't much better.

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

Time and again, researchers have shown that students' capabilities are powerfully impacted by the identities they develop for themselves as the result of teachers' belief in their level of intelligence.

[Jason] faltered when he looked at Leo, who was mimicking taking notes with an air pencil. “Go on, Professor Grace!” he said, wide-eyed. “I wanna get an A on the test.

A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.

All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.