Steve Spurrier Quotes

Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.

We want every guy to graduate, and we work very hard on that.

I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.

I made good grades in school.

It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as not being college material, and if they have the right support, they can all go to college and succeed.

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

It's so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.

If my child were in a school where he was not learning, I would not wait for a gathering of social scientists to tell me whether it was okay for me to send him to another school.

There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well.

Underestimating grades has serious consequences for a student's choice of university, and their future.

Every young man that we want to bring here to the University of Georgia, we want them to graduate from this place.

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

I hated school, but I was a good student. I made straight A's.

With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.

Good students are good at all things.

Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2. I always wished that I had the capacity to get straight A's, but I didn't. I didn't beat myself up about it, but I really studied hard for my grades.

I hardly ever missed school, and I always got my work in on time. I was a good student and always got top grades.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

I was a good student in school.

I want to make sure that all kids get a good education and enjoy what they learn.

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

For me, sports is a big part of my life. It helped me through high school. It helped me get better grades, because if you don't have good grades, you can't play sports.

One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.