Quotes About Learning

I went to Mexico for three months after college and studied Spanish there. And I went to Cuba and studied at the University of Havana. I loved studying in other countries.

The fact that I am getting a doctorate in spite of being a college drop-out proves that the world can be your university.

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

I'm not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I'm not able to deal with things outside my ken, and that makes me irritable. I'm irritable about the fact that I never went to university.

I went to Enloe High School and then East Carolina University and graduated with a business degree in marketing.

I went to college in the Air Force, and I went to college at the University of Maryland, who had college campuses on Air Force bases.

Many policemen have not completed their education, and the university can help them on this front. Education will enable them to speak well and politely to the people.

In the university library my father helped lead, as the Associate Director of Libraries from '60 to '82, I spent hours and hours as a kid devouring piles of books so I could follow the latest advances in science.

I finished my university, was part of NSD, and did full length plays on stages.

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.

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

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University.

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.

For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.

And for me, it's been, not only where I learned, but the people that I met there. Most of the people that I work with are guys that, one way or another, have been associated with the university.

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

I actually didn't mind school, and I enjoyed university and college.