Quotes About Scholarship

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

Henry Louis Gates is such a wealth of knowledge in himself.

We don't want cost to be a barrier to good students getting a higher education.

After considering the ways that I might be able to help young college students, I decided to continue my support of the Light on the Hill scholarship. I would like to endorse this particular fund and encourage other former UNC students who have found success to reach back and assist the efforts of current and future Tar Heels.

For years i had been resolved - unconsciously at first, but consciously later on - that when once my scholarship was won i would 'slack off' and cram no longer. This resolve, by the way, was so fully carried out that between the ages of thirteen and twenty-two or three i hardly ever did a stroke of avoidable work.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

A knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

It's true I only know what I've read in books, but I've read a great many books.

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Docendo discimus.' 'I'm afraid you will have to translate for me,' Tom told him. "'We learn by teaching"

Barack himself is very much a regular guy, not a silver spoon, incredibly smart, but, you know, he's a scholarship kid, made good use of the resources that were available to him, worked incredibly hard.

After I did my graduation in mechanical engineering, I got a scholarship to go to the U.S. to do my master's. So I did that. I also worked there for a while. After my master's, I did a course in Film Appreciation.

I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.

My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.

A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a shared frame of reference among educated people.

If you're going to make comments on economy, study economy. If you're gonna make comments on world history, make sure you learn world history. If you're gonna save lives and be a doctor, you need to study medicine. Then, you will be able to make comments on economy, on medicine, and on world history.

For me, 'educator' is the highest title that exists.

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.

It's... time to introduce scholarship programs that give students a choice, especially those who are locked into low-performing schools.

If You don't read good books, then you are no better than an unlettered Man