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We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work.

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.

I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.

I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.

In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.

I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car-we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.

There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didn't want to go to private school.

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.

Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.

So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

How little those who are school-girls of to-day can realize what it was to be a school-girl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!

Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.