It's not that our high school system was not designed well, but that it was designed in 1906 when the country was just out of the industrial era. There hasn't been a substantial systemic change the way we do high school since then.
Laurene Powell Jobs
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In middle school, I played quarterback. I was at a tiny school, so you played offense and defense - I played linebacker, and in high school I stopped playing around my sophomore year because of my acting stuff.
Jesse Plemons
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
Abbi Glines
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I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked.
Mo Rocca
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I did choir in high school, but I didn't sing professionally anywhere ever.
Scott Michael Foster
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I wanted to be something and prove to girls in high school, and to my mum and dad, that I could be really... spectacular.
Charlotte McKinney
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I took a detour to France in my senior year in high school. So that's part of what ended up sending me, actually, to Middlebury because I went to school with people who were more from the Northeast.
Parker Harris
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I just go back to my roots. I was literally born 26 miles from Martinsville High School where Coach Wooden grew up, and then my dad coached there for four years.
Steve Alford
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I studied acting throughout high school, then modelling took over because it brought more opportunity. When I quit modelling, coming back to Vancouver, I registered at the University of Victoria.
Cobie Smulders
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While I was in junior high, I wrote an entire essay in rhyme about manufacturing in New York State. In high school, I won a Scholastic poetry contest.
Jane Yolen
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I started painting when I was in high school.
James Best
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I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts.
John C. Reilly
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
Dan Jenkins
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I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'
Miles Teller
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I'm not in a position to tell heavy people anything.
Tyra Banks
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I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.
Catherine Opie
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High school was a complicated, confusing time for me. I wasn't confident, didn't know who I was, and was hiding from myself a lot.
Patrick J. Adams
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But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.
Stephan Jenkins
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When I was 10, I went to the Junior Olympics for the 50-meter and 100-meter breaststroke.
Colin Jost
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And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.
James T. Walsh
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Everybody in the NBA works on their game. I just tried to follow that lead when I was in high school, college - and now.
Kawhi Leonard
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I was not paying attention during physics in high school; I was wondering if I was going to be cast in 'Pippin.'
John Benjamin Hickey
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I had no interest in high school besides art.
Damian Loeb
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The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.
Jules Shear
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