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Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.

You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.

Everybody that has a measurement, whether it's in teaching or whether it's in your job, you're always worried how you will be measured.

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.

I never cared what kind of grade I got.

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.