Sufficiently High Grades

Famous quotes containing the words sufficiently, high and/or grades:

    “A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Someday soon, we hope that all middle and high school will have required courses in child rearing for girls and boys to help prepare them for one of the most important and rewarding tasks of their adulthood: being a parent. Most of us become parents in our lifetime and it is not acceptable for young people to be steeped in ignorance or questionable folklore when they begin their critical journey as mothers and fathers.”
    —James P. Comer (20th century)

    “Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down, does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.”
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)