US /'ɡreɪdər/
・UK /ˈgreɪdə(r)/
Super suave, but not cool for a fourth grader in America.
Super suave, but not cool for a fourth grader in America.
And there's a little fifth grader, and she's doing trigonometry.
And there's a little fifth grader and she's doing trigonometry
And I listened to a 10th grader sagely advise the 5th grader, "If I only knew when I was your age what I know now, I would have picked my friends differently, because I got into the wrong crowd and you never can tell yourself how much your friends are really gonna influence you." So they're selecting your physical situation to advantage, going to the library instead of studying in a noisy house, uh, choosing to sit at the front of the class versus the back of the class.
and I listened to a tenth-grader sagely
>> So I remember from grade school, sort of an optimization from a first grader,
And if you don't already know this, I should warn you that I have a reputation around Yale as being a harsh grader.
We ask me, "Well, Professor Kagan is somebody." Once, there was a story on grade inflation that the Yale Daily News began by saying, "As Shelly Kagan (known at Yale as one of the hardest graders) closed." So I know I've got at least the reputation of being a hard grader.
He's an 8th grader.
he's an eighth-grader his name is Chris Martin he decided to wear eyeliner
is where the reader understands what you're about to do. This is where the grader -- the
This is where the grader, the person who's giving you your score, understands if you understood the question, understands if you know what you're talking about,
So goes the life of a Spelling Bee listmaker: you must always prove, time and again and with increasing difficulty, that you are, in fact, smarter than a fifth grader.
You must always prove time and again and with increasing difficulty that you are in fact smarter than a fifth grader.
For a fourth-grader, you've got to be smart.
- For a fourth grader, you gotta be smart,
Okay, so this past weekend a really good friend of mine who lives in New York called and said, "How are you feeling about the '99 conference?" And my answer was, "What do you think is the least invasive way to extract eyeball juice from a first grader?" And his response was, "Oh God, are you in that place?" And I said, "No, really, this is here's the idea.
To extract eyeball juice from a first-grader