Quotes of: College-education Keyword

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Frank Zappa

On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, skilled workforce in the vital areas of science, math, engineering and information technology. At the same time, we must give every student access to a ...

John F. Tierney

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

Charlie Trotter

Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a ve...

Peter Agre

You have, unfortunately, a K-12 educational system where the requirements to graduate are not the requirements to be college and career-ready. So if you want young adults who are college and career-ready, our K-12 system right now does not have that ...

Gerald Chertavian

I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.

Martin Ryle

I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.

G-Eazy

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

Joseph Stiglitz

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.

Tom Barrett

I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged to follow our dreams. However, after I graduated and had a historical romance published, more than a few people indicated that, in some way, my career choice...

Lisa Kleypas

I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that i...

Danica McKellar

I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth ...

Ric Keller

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

Monica Crowley

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

Tyler Hamilton

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

William James

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

Antony Hewish

We care (about prison education), very simply, because (prisoners) get out. Almost everyone who is locked up now is going to be set free one day. If we treat prisoners like animals the whole time they are locked up, that's what we'll get when they're...

College for Convicts: The Case for Higher Education in American Prisons

Thousands of persons, many of whom never darkened the door of a college, have learned to read books that most of our college graduates fear to tackle. teachers who understand this fact can help a student read the books that educated the Founding Fath...

Stringfellow Barr

I thought i had been educated well enough until i left college.

Paul Bamikole

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

Mark Twain

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

Bill Gates