In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.
With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.
I think that part of being a good journalist, part of being an awake member of the world you're in, is to view yourself as an outsider, and I always have, to some degree.
The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.
I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.
Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.
I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.
I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.
I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.
Some simple truths are so clear to a dazzling degree that to realize them you need to think over and live for a long time
Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
I'd like to get a degree. You ever see the movie 'Back to School?' I'll go back with my kids.
