Michelle Obama Quotes

Time and again, a student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worthwhile to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests, saying that if the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it.

It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect that our time will sustain itself if we don't do a better job on issues like education... It's absolutely the case that the low cost of college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid I was able to receive made my education possible.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

I never thrived in high school.

Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.

I think the ultimate challenge is to have some kind of style and grace, even though you haven't got money, or standing in society, or formal education. I had a very middle, lower-middle class sort of upbringing, but I identify with people who've had, at some point in their lives to struggle to survive. It adds another color to your character.

I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I could have stayed in college and still recorded. Isn't that something? The kids of today are doing it.

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

I never learned to study in studio school, so I had to teach myself to study.

Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.

Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.

My concern for education in New Mexico has always been there. I'm one of those kids that struggled through school, and I feel like I fell through the cracks.

No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that - added to a little luck - allowed me to achieve. Education is the key to a career, and its basis has to be provided by government.

My big chip is that I never had an education. I wanted my children to get one so they didn't fall into the same trap as me.

I worked my way through law school.

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.

You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.

I don't know whether I much enjoyed education. I was not academically gifted.