When I was 13, before I got in high school, I was writing mad raps. I didn't really know if it was good or not, so for a year, I just held them. When I got in high school, I started spittin' bars.
I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
I dropped out of school after my tenth standard. But both my elder brother and younger brother are highly educated.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.
America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
I see a future where getting to work or to school or to the store does not have to cause pollution.
I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.
Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.
I'm made up of immigrant stock. I went to a primary school in London. I grew up eating Spangles, why shouldn't I be as well placed to speak for Londoners as anyone else?
I guess I just don't see America as separate from Vietnam or Ethiopia. This mentality of 'our team's better than yours' it's a high school idea. My kids don't see those dividing lines, and I don't want to either.
I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus I just looked different and acted different, so I left school.
