Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes

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

Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!

I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.

I love school. I was a great student.

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

When I was growing up, I'd study for days trying to get good grades. When I'd get an 'A,' I'd feel elation for about 30 seconds, and then a feeling of emptiness.

C is a passing grade. You don't need straight A's to be a scientist, despite what you may have heard.

I was never good at being a boy, but I was always a good student.

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

I say that our system of tests and grades, as it now exists, is one source of the low yield of great men from our universities. The marking system is a traumatic experience from which most students emerge with a deep determination never to get into a situation where they can be marked again. They just won't ever again take a chance.

My studies are important to me. I made the honor role just recently, with 2 A's and 2 B's.

We have placed more emphasis on grades and school ranking than on genuine education.

How you do in school determines how you do in life.

Parents have got to become more involved in their children’s education.

I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.

I think everybody should go to high school. It's horrible, and it unites you with other people.

I went to college when I was 27, and somehow, between high school and college, I became obsessed with getting A's. I can tell you exactly how many non-A's I had, and tell you honestly that I cried every time!

High school sucks! It's hard.

I was raised by a single mother, and she felt the Japanese education system, albeit wonderful, keeps you in a certain range. You have to be better than this level but below this level.

My worst nightmare when I was in school was that I would get into trouble. I never got in trouble. I was a good student.

When I was in grade five or six, I just remember quite a lot of people were always talking about me like I was some kind of math genius. And there were just so many moments when I realized, like, okay, why can't I just be like some normal person and go have a 75% average like everyone else.

I was a good student and stuff like that.

I got good grades. I played sports.

When I was 11, I had just started my comprehensive school.

I passed the 11-plus and went up to the senior school, where my two older sisters had already gone. I was in the 'A' stream, but in the third year, they asked me to give up Latin; no one had ever got 7 per cent before.