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- Nov 07, 2020
Grammar School Quotes
Where early lessons stuck.
These memories of grammar school range from fond to genuinely painful, covering scholarship classmates, self-taught parents who valued education fiercely, and teachers who fell short of the job.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Grammar
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- Nov 07, 2020
At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but took a break while my sister Madeleine and I were children. She held court in the kitchen, and we talked about everything.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Then that generation went, 'OK, great', and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn't caught up.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of Hollywood kids went to my grammar school growing up. I'm completely unmoved by it.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grammar school caught on to the fact that the reason I was falling asleep in class was that I was doing working men's clubs till 10 or 11 at nights. My mother was told I shouldn't do it anymore. Of course, I was bringing in money to the family, so nobody liked hearing that.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.
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- Nov 07, 2020