Educational Pursuits Quotes

Ada came from Lwów. She was a very good looking girl who was studying mathematics at the University of Geneva. For a few years I had an off-and-on romance with her.

I really was the nerd in the car that read vocabulary books. If we were going on day trips, I would quite like to have just stayed in the car with my German and French vocab books. It's embarrassing to admit to it now.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

I always knew I wanted an educational background, and my mum and dad were quite big on that.

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

Respect for education—the idea that education will buy improvement in our lives—is one of the oldest and fundamental American ideas.

You're never too old or too busy to continue your educatioan!

I am a very shy and closed person. I stay in my house. The only time I go out is for award functions and maybe interviews. Because, this is part of my profession and I have to do it. Otherwise, I stay in my house or attend some classes.

Maybe Asians are switching from studying to sports.

My siblings, along with my parents Chris and Kath, are the reason that I am successful. Whether I wanted to become an elementary school teacher, enter and win Alternative Miss Ireland, enroll to do a Ph.D., or visit the White House to speak about fashion and disability, they supported me.

I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.

I had never made any plans beyond basketball.

I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them.

My father's side of the family was very active in education.

In fact, both my parents were doctors but I was a duffer.

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.

I loved to learn everything, everything in sight, and I was never satisfied that I knew everything there was to know in each of my courses.

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops, that there's a temptation to miss your own life in pursuing the lives of your betters. It makes you wise in some ways, but it can make you a blindfolded fool in others.

Well, I always wanted to be educated and be prepared.

My elder brother is a lecturer in a college in Haryana, and my eldest sister was a teacher. I feel they are more educated than I am. I, too, used to dream of becoming a teacher.

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.