I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.
Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.
Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.
I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating.
I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.
I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.
The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.
I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.
Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF, California Junior Scholarship Foundation. We were involved in soup kitchens and toy drives, and your school can set up something like that. If your school doesn't have a program like that, set one up.
My biggest problem in middle school was catty girls, cliques, and trying to figure out if I wanted to be a part of one of those, just figuring out who I was and all that.
I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.
The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.
I think things get a lot better after high school. I think the ones that struggle during that time tend to have better experiences after.
When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.
We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.