Educational Background Quotes

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT.

I've grown up in Mumbai, did college from Mumbai, many colleges, actually - Jai Hind, Ruia, Andrews, Wilson, Whistling Woods... Then I worked as a production assistant with Prahlad Kakar, and then I started acting.

I did all right in school, especially in math.

I grew up with it. As a young actor, I was always aware of the brilliant work of Shakespeare. We studied Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth in school. As a young actor, you're always mystified and intrigued by such brilliant work. To actually have the chance to be involved in this production was a wonderful thing for me.

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

I got a GED based on Catholic school seventh-grade education, really. I didn't make it that far.

I am from Mumbai. I studied at the Utpal Sanghvi School at Juhu and then went to the Mithibai College. I come from a business family, and I am the only son.

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

I have not the advantage of a classical education, and no man should, in my judgement, accept a degree he cannot read.

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

I would say out of all the things I studied growing up, math was probably one of the things that I liked the least.

When I was in college, I walked by the journalism school every day on my way to my own classes, and that's the closest I've come to having any sort of journalism background.

I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

Though I did M.Sc. from Dharamshala, I was always attracted towards music.

My parents were not at all involved in science. In fact, neither of them went to college.

I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.

I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.

I was actually qualified to be an art teacher, but I didn't want to teach.

My mother didn't feel very satisfied about the English background that I had received in the public schools in Littleton. So, she insisted that I take a year under the high school level. So, I was in boarding school nine years.

I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.

If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

From B.A. to M.A. and on to Ph.D., my academic career was all smooth sailing. Upon receiving my degrees, I stayed on to teach at Beijing Normal University.

I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching.