Robert M. Hutchins Quotes

The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

I made good grades in school.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

I stood as well as any in my class, but the test of scholarship at that day was contemptible

I was a good student. I started college at 16 years old and did okay.

I never did pageants as a kid, but when I got into high school, I did a couple that were tied to a sort of all-around academic student achievement program, something akin to Junior Miss, but not Junior Miss.

C is a passing grade. You don't need straight A's to be a scientist, despite what you may have heard.

I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.

I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grades and school. That comes first. My mother always told me that came first.

My university work was not central to my education.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as I've often said, people who are excluded from society tend to express themselves in ways not acceptable to society.

Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics.

I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.

I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.