Academic Expectations Quotes

I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes.

We should not have 8th grade graduations. Instead we should tell the students, “You have a long way to go. Get your butt down and study.”

Economics is in many respects the queen of the soft sciences. It's expected to be better than the rest. It's my view that economics is better at the multi-disciplinary stuff than the rest of the soft science. And it's also my view that it's still lousy.

I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

I went to Yale to earn a law degree. But that first year at Yale taught me most of all that I didn't know how the world of the American elite works.

I was good at math and science, and it was expected that I would attend the University of Washington in Seattle and become an engineer. But by the time I was seventeen, I was ready to leave home, a decision my parents agreed to support if I could obtain a scholarship. MIT did not grant me one, but the University of Chicago did.

Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.

The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge.

You didn't want to bring home anything but an A or a B. To my mom, a C was like an F.

The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.

Science is an investigation," Coach said, sanding his hands together. "Science requires us to transform into spies." Put that way, science almost sounded fun. But I'd been in Coach's class long enough not to get my hopes up.

I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.

My parents themselves both went to university, and they very much expected me to be an intellectual and go through further education, and it's to kind of their surprise that I became an athlete.

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.

When I was in grade five or six, I just remember quite a lot of people were always talking about me like I was some kind of math genius. And there were just so many moments when I realized, like, okay, why can't I just be like some normal person and go have a 75% average like everyone else.

I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels.

When I was in high school, there was a lot of pressure on me. I felt like I had to be perfect.

If a female student wants to drop a physics course, no one questions her, but if a male student tries to drop it, he will get pushback and encouraged to stay in, since he will need it later in life.

All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are sixty-five million American kids going to bed with no math at all.

The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to the precepts which have ben set from above. One of these precepts is not to think.

I was part of the generation that was supposed to become doctors.