Quotes About Scholarship

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.

The public schools in our neighborhood were so bad that the teachers in the school said you shouldn't send your kids here. My mother called around and found a school that was willing to give both me and my brother scholarship money. It's a classic story about black parents wanting more for their kids than they had for themselves.

Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar.

Academia does not provide many opportunities for immediate gratification. You work for two years on a project, it takes two more years to get it published, and then you start hoping someone might read it.

It's important to me that no one can say I'm not pumping out high-level research.

We should be encouraging - not penalizing - folks who want to pursue higher education.

I kind of always wanted to act, but to get a grant I would have needed two A-levels, and I was too far away from even O levels. I didn't know you could get a scholarship, so I determined early not to pursue that.

I went out to California; I was pursuing my degree in genetic engineering and civil law at U.C. Berkeley, and I had to pay my way through school. I eventually got a scholarship, which was great, but in the beginning, it was very hard.

My daughter is on academic scholarship at the University of Central Florida. I feel so blessed.

If I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player.

I went to Brigham Young University on a football scholarship. I wasn't a football player; I was a place kicker.

Sometimes it's forgotten that players are coming to college to get a degree.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

We need education across the board on all fronts.

I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

Une tête bien faite et une tête bien pleine (kepala yang baik adalah kepala yang penuh dengan ilmu pengetahuan

Libri quosdam ad scientiam, quosdam ad insaniam deduxere. (Books have led some to knowledge and some to madness.)

Studying Latin can teach you how to think analytically.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

Ipsa scientia potestas est. Knowledge itself is power.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything.