“Sixth-grade sweethearts. Wow. New Yorkers only commit to that type of monogamy with the Yankees or Giants”
“A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.”
“...In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers...”
“In the best classrooms, grades are only one of many types of feedback provided to students.”
“Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.”
“When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to be tough and untouchable, but really I was squishy and sensitive.”