Quotes About Education

For me to even think about attending a college or university would have been a real financial hardship. It would not have happened. That basketball scholarship changed my life.

People don't really know, but I went to Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York.

And a bit of discipline never did 14-year-olds any harm.

I had a teacher at school who told me to take up the harp.

After I finished school, I went to JJ College of Architecture and then to Harvard. I did my B.A. with a major in filmmaking.

I don't have an MBA from Harvard Business School. I learnt everything on the job.

When I entered Harvard, my background was mostly combinatorics and algebra.

At Harvard, you don't major. You concentrate.

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.

Blueprints are for Harvard MBAs. I dropped out of college.

I wanted to go to Harvard because it felt like it would be the Hogwarts Academy of law schools.

Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard.

Harvard has enough panegyrists without me.

I have an economics degree from Harvard.

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

When I went to Harvard Law School, my first year, I didn't want people to know I started my education in a colored school. I didn't want them to know I was the great-grandson of enslaved people. I thought it might diminish me.

I got more out of the farm than Harvard Business School.

I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.

I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don't necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It's not the best choice for creative writing.

At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.

I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.

There's probably people that go to Harvard and say, 'Listen, I went to Harvard. I got a great education, and I can't find a job, or I didn't become the success that I could have been.' Sure, I mean, you probably have that at every major university.

I just thought Harvard sounded great. So let's see if I get in. I didn't really have a big back-up plan.