Rex Orange County Quotes

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

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test.

A final is a final, and is motivation in itself.

I've always been an A or B student. When I get a B, I freak out a little bit!

If a student believes that taking too many exams is hard or skipping advanced courses for a lighter load is a better deal, just wait until he or she goes to college and needs to prepare for finals or has to figure out complex work problems in a stressful environment.

There is actually a huge suicide problem in Palo Alto schools, so obviously not all is well in paradise. High expectations, and the pressure to achieve in a highly competitive world are too much for a lot of very promising young people. There have been something like ten youth suicides in Palo Alto in the past ten years. They usually step in front of the train that runs by the high school.

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.

I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn't always want to do my homework, but I actually really liked school. As nerdy as it sounds, I love learning.

I always say getting my bachelor's was the single hardest thing I've done in my life. Once I got to university, I was working harder than I ever had before and, for the first time in my life, I was getting bad grades. It was demoralising.

I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

So I think it's like the night before the exam. Obviously, you stress. But when you have done your job well, then you need to go down, relax and enjoy.

The hard part is majors are exhausting on their own. They're a long week. So the hard part is your energy levels.

I'm passionate about schoolwork because I don't like getting bad grades.

Think about being a teenager and feeling like school is just about taking tests you may or may not be interested in, after which someone will judge whether or not you're smart. No one's going to be inspired by that.

In middle school and high school, I had straight A's, and I graduated at the top of my year. On the flip side of that, I struggled with very severe performance anxiety.

I was a bum at school. I never liked learning, and stupid ideas used to come to mind.

Education is a beautiful, liberating thing, but I think that tying in education and status, and the need to do well at every cost, is toxic.

It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that.

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

Jack, my 16 year old, was in knots a couple of months back, studying for Latin. I said, "Mate, you've got no interest in Latin. You don't want to go into it after, so drop it." He said, "No, I can't. I'm going to get bullied at school because all my mates are in there." There's a prime example of why no one cooks at school. You're studying Latin, you've got no interest.

School used to be an escape. Now it's just another place with too much pressure, too much confrontation, & so not enough joy.