Quotes About Education

I graduated from Jones College, man, in Jacksonville, Florida, baby! I couldn't get in anywhere else, man. I was the worst student ever. I couldn't get in anywhere else. My father insisted I go to college, so I graduated, made the dean's list and everything.

The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate.

I know, as an overachiever straight-A student in school, I always responded to smart, strong, women represented on screen.

I was a political science student.

I wasn't a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened.

I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.

I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.

At Libertyville High, I was a bad student, chronic truant, and all-round incorrigible. I was forever being sent to the principal's office to be disciplined.

I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.

You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.

Young and dumb is something you gotta go through, but you've got to be a student.

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.

I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.

Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, their class affect where they end up.

I was a student of law as my grandmother wanted me to be a lawyer. But my passion has always been movies.

As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.

You might say those who can't repay their student debts shouldn't have borrowed in the first place. But they had no way of knowing just how bad the jobs market would become.