Educational Qualifications Quotes

I did French, history, biology, chemistry, and general studies at A level.

I'm not educated; I'd be a damn fool if I was (educated)!

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a ball in a hole.

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.

I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.

I received my high school baccalaureate diploma in Latin and Science in 1928, then my two baccalaureate diplomas in Mathematics and Philosophy in 1929.

Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree sets you back, for it stuffs you into tick-tock [the daily grind of work], and perhaps that stifles your creative mind. But the fact is that many millionaires have few educational qualifications of any kind at all. However, they still have knowledge. The difference is, they have knowledge they can sell, and others have the "common knowledge" of tick-tock, which isn't worth as much, if anything at all.

Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.

If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

By the time I finished school, I found out I wasn't qualified to study anything but music.

Not a Harvard-type education, just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.

Certificates from top US universities adorned the walls like tiger head in a hunter’s home.

Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.

You're not going to get to college - you're not even going to be qualified, even to go to a community college, if you don't address the basic problem of literacy in America. And there's no reason - no reason - for us to have that problem.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.