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Quotes About Education

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
~ Carl Sagan
It took me 8 years to graduate from undergraduate school because I kept 'communism from your door steps' for 3 1/2 years in between while serving in the U.S. Army.
~ Dan Pena
If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
My undergraduate degree was in art history! Raising money for Chipotle was really my MBA. The money for my first restaurant came from my dad, the second from mostly cash flow. The third was an SBA loan. After my dad invested $1.5 million to open a few more, he suggested I raise the money myself for the experience.
~ Steve Ells
Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.
~ Emilio Ambasz
In 1990, I was an undergraduate freshman archeology major sneaking over to the English building and unearthing an amazing repository of books I'd never even suspected. By 1998, I'd have my Ph.D.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
In fall 2007, I stood at the midway point of completing my undergraduate studies at Columbia. I studied every moment that I wasn't sitting in class. I was very focused on maintaining a solid GPA, so I could go on to law school.
~ Ray William Johnson
I got my undergraduate degree in chemical engineering.
~ Leroy Chiao
My undergraduate degree is in business, so I'm trying to get a bit of a background before I go in.
~ Shannon Miller
Shiv Nadar University has five schools with 16 departments offering 14 undergraduate, 10 master's and 13 doctoral programmes. The demand for engineering courses - computer science, engineering, electronics, communication engineering, mechanical engineering - is slightly on the higher side compared to other engineering courses.
~ Shiv Nadar
My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or biology because... the voyagers and adventurers and real contributors - that's where they come from.
~ Michael Moritz
For me, I was always the only woman in my cohort, first as a mechanical engineering undergraduate student, then as a chemical engineering graduate student. There were very few women getting degrees in those fields at the time. My role models were men - great men role models.
~ Frances Arnold
My undergraduate, I double-majored in biology and chemistry. Biology was kind of my love.
~ Peggy Whitson
Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
~ Mark Kelly
There's not a day that goes by that I don't draw on my undergraduate background in psychology.
~ Geoffrey Canada
My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
~ Hill Harper
Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess.
~ Stanley Hauerwas
As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.
~ Harold E. Varmus
Interestingly, a good undergraduate program does a lot of what an MBA does. I think a really good undergraduate program and some work experience is just about the equal of an MBA.
~ Gerry Schwartz
I think everyone needs to focus on the quality of the undergraduate experience.
~ Gordon Gee
I was studying at Stanford University with two quarters left to go before receiving an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. Then, I got the telephone call from my mother. I had no choice. I went home, and I jumped into the company feet first, right from day one. There was no time to grieve my father.
~ Azim Premji
I was an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina and earned my degree in Experimental Psychology in 1988.
~ Christine Blasey Ford
Personally, I chose my own undergraduate institution in large part because the scholarship options made it affordable for me to attend. Make no mistake: The financial feasibility of each school's cost was a major part of making my decision, as it was for almost everyone I knew.
~ Kat Timpf
I have taught a mixture of undergraduate and graduate courses, and found them both stimulating.
~ Jim Peebles