academic performance quotes

I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

My report card always said, ‚Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students‘.