I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.
My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.
As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.
The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.
I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.
I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.
I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.
It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.
There's a lot of middle school behavior in Washington, D.C. I look at that and I say, 'I've seen that before,' it was just with a 14-year-old.
Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team.
I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.
Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.
Hannibal Lecter: You fly back to school, now, little Starling. Fly, fly, fly...
Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.
All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.
I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.
Over at the Olivia Pope & Associates set, we're like middle school children. Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around; there's show tunes and fart noises.
My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school. They said I had a tendency to somehow perform the most tragic of scenes in a slightly flippant way.
When I was in high school, we used to do 15-20 hours of dance per week, and then when you graduate, you don't have that much time on your hands anymore.
It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.
