Quotes About Education

When I was 18, graduating high school, I was going to the University of Missouri.

I would like to say I can change millions of lives, but realistically, if my journey inspires 10 people to go to university or to achieve something, then I think I've done my job.

At University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, I was one of the first Blacks there. I didn't go to a Black school until my junior year of college, when I went to Fisk University.

My college degree is from a great university in 1944. I got my master's at Harvard graduate school, completely co-ed, in 1945. My mother got her college degree in 1920. What's the problem? Those opportunities were always there for women.

No state legislature ever built a great university.

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University.

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.

Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will.

With the establishment of a presence in all three counties of Delaware, recruitment in and outside Delaware and throughout the world and new master's and doctoral programs, Delaware State University will continue to grow and attract even more qualified students.

When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality.

I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

My great grandfather from my father's side, Sir Akbar Hydari, was the prime minister of the Nizam of Hyderabad. He was instrumental in setting up the Osmania university. His wife set up the Hydari club for women so that they could play tennis, and she also set up the first girls' school in Hyderabad.

I spend most of my time by being at a university, hanging out with very manic, excited 18-year-olds.

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along.

I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.