Speaking just after she had picked up the prize she recalled that "at school I had a teacher who made us memorise and recite two poems.
Most of the state and local reductions were in education, as staff members were laid off and not recalled at the beginning of the school year.
He recalled his experience at school in the US in the 1960s when he was turned off science.
She recalled that, while at school, she was often unsure whether to join the boys' line or the girls' and wound up standing between the two.
Mingling with fellow musicians at a preconcert dinner of kale, chicken and pasta salad in the school cafeteria, Mr. Washington (class of 1976) recalled the day at school that he faced a sheet of music and quailed.
Thomson notes that, in later life, he recalled his mistreatment at school as "uniquely anti-Semitic," and adds, "How far this impression was coloured by Levi's eventual persecution is hard to tell".
Shahnaz Ramzan, 11, a fifth-grade student at the Peer Dargai Shah Primary School recalled, "Our school, before the floods, had two rooms and a boundary wall.
His wife, Veronica, a high-school sweetheart, recalled a school trip to Rome at age 17: Mr. Jakob saw a handmade ring being sold by a street vendor and promised to make one for her.
Keats's planet "swims" also because tears have moistened the astronomer's eyes, just as Coleridge, in "Frost at Midnight," recalls his misery at school, "mine eye / Fixed with mock study on my swimming book" when homesickness made him weep.
People often wistfully recall woodwork classes at school, but lack education in rudimentary making and fixing, and are at a loss as how to use basic hand tools with any competence.
