John Knowles Quotes

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.

All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.

Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.

I think our vision heretofore has been and should continue to be to have Cardozo be the kind of law school that we can be proud of. I would like to see it gain recognition as one of the three best law schools in New York City.

As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.

I went to Yale for undergrad.

I hate school at that time. Now, little did I know that actually if I had stayed in school I would've actually really liked college. I wasn't aware enough to know that the junior high I was suffering through would be school at its worst.

I did go to university and I did teach school for a year.

I studied at Carnegie Mellon. I went there with a bunch of really, really talented kids.

I didn't care for school much - it was very strict, corporal punishment in the form of the 'tawse' was common and unpredictable, and I was often afraid - but I believe that I did well enough; indeed, my mother always regretted that I had not stayed long enough to become the 'dux,' as the best pupil was called.

I had the benefit of going to a really good high school on Long Island. I went to Shoreham-Wading River High School, which kind of started as an experimental public school back in the 60s and 70s. It had a bunch of teachers there with a unique teaching philosophy.

To be in the Finals and the medical staff is telling me I can't play... it sucks.

I think you can find a good, happy balance between being a great research university as Rutgers is and being a high-quality sports program.

I didn't finish college, and I was very sad about that because I don't think I gave myself a chance to learn, to prove to myself that I could learn.

I had bad days, and that means somebody else had a great day.

I'm a collegiate All-American athlete and earned a master's degree in education from Florida State University.

It was my dream to come to Oxford and study political science.

HBCUs have been a bedrock of the Black community since their founding, evolving into institutions of prodigious scholarship and activism, and educating African-Americans nationwide.

My family has always valued my education.