Quotes About Education

My university teacher and mentor Kenneth Arrow remembers me as a student who asked good questions. Although I had not previously thought of myself in that way, on reflection I think that Arrow was right.

I'll always be a student. I learn by doing.

I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point.

I have this rather amazing report which, roughly speaking, says I was the worst student the biology master had ever taught.

I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student.

The message from the Technion when I was a student was: 'You will be so good that when you graduate, everyone will want to hire you.'

The move to creating stories was a natural progression for me, but the most pivotal time was probably in 6th grade: That year, a friend introduced me to the stories of Ray Bradbury, and a student teacher introduced me to creative writing.

Learn when and how to use different data structures and their algorithms in your own code. This is harder as a student, as the problem assignments you'll work through just won't impart this knowledge. That's fine.

Colleges accept the highest sub-scores from different administrations. So if a student takes the SAT many times instead of once, she has a larger pool of scores from which to pick out the highest math, critical reading, and writing.

I was a decent student but not a great student.

I think I spent most of my childhood, and my early years as a performer, in student mode. And I think that's OK - I mean, it led me to where I am.

The difference between the National Football League and college is this: In college, you are a broke college student.

There's very little that's comparable to seeing the spark in a student's face when she gets something that she's been struggling with.

I was a good student; I was a good boy. I got A's, and I did all the papers right.

All through the student years, I was at the top of my class although I was two years younger than everybody else.

The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.

I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body.

Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans.

For millions of Americans, federally subsidized student loans and Pell Grants are an important resource for us to get ahead so we can achieve the American dream.

When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.

Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can't continue to allow it.

Mr. Obama seeks to federalize large portions of education, beginning with his attempt to nationalize college student loans.

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

If lenders are forced to scale back student lending because private student loans are subject to bankruptcy discharge, many students will be denied access to higher education.