By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts,… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of… — George Weinberg Copy Share Image
I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
I had left graduate school, determined that I wasn't going to do anything else to "save the world" until I understood how… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
At times God's best pupils experience the most rigorous and continuous courses. Eventually those who prove to be men of Christ will… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
There was a time, before I was in graduate school, when political philosophy pretty much ceased to exist. The positivists thought there… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If you start thinking about who's going to read it [you're writing], or what grade will you get, or is it going… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
There are some surprising payoffs with only a few minutes' practice, like eliminating the loss of concentration that multitasking usually brings. Short… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I teach a graduate seminar called "Theorizing Improvisation" that is pretty interdisciplinary, but really makes students deal with black studies seriously. A… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
The whole intelectual culture has a filtering system, starts as a child in school. You're expected to accept certain beliefs, styles, behavioral… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Historically, it took a long time before the court took any women law clerks. Finally, it did, but the numbers have never… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image