E. L. Konigsburg Quotes

Students in school cheat not to get the 'A,' but to avoid the 'C.'

I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.

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.

The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.

I think regular school is harder than my job. You have to deal with kids picking on you, and you wanting to look good and all this stuff. It was way too much pressure.

How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.

Sundays in my teens were spent on homework: from 8 am until at least 8 pm, with stoppages to be fed and watered. I was carrying up to ten subjects simultaneously.

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

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

I still have nightmares about taking tests.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. Anybody can behave well when things are going smoothly.

High school sucks! It's hard.

It's official: The biggest back-to-school bullies are anxiety, worry and fear.

I never wanted to lose who I am, my character or my integrity for the sake of Hollywood.

Emotions were never the most important thing when I was at school; it was all about academics and this constant performance of pretending that you're okay and getting on with life.

During finals week, I don't get a lot of sleep, and I tell myself, 'I can't do this anymore.'

Middle and high school sucked.

I didn't know about competition until I got to school. I didn't know how degrading it was to be graded until I got to school.

The higher my GPA gets the more I realize high school is useless

The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.

We learned after the first semester in law school that it's best never to discuss exams. If notes are compared afterwards, you become painfully aware of things you missed.

I went to school for one year. It was the best experience but the worst experience. The best experience because I was, like, 'Oh, now I know why kids are so depressed.' But it was the worst experience because I was depressed.

The pressure on kids is high to get good grades. In my time, no one cared about it. My father looked at them but he didn't really make much fuss about them.

Academics are not necessarily nice people.

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.