Centre Quote by Greg Mortenson

The goal of my University education was to get into a medical college and equip myself to run a hospital in Kumbakonam left behind…

— M. S. Swaminathan

After my grandfather began to be successful, he returned to the village where he was born and founded a primary school.

— Guler Sabanci

My dad was teaching in Kenya, and my grandparents came to visit me there. They brought me to England, and my dad continued to…

— Francesca Hayward

I come from Ambedkar Nagar, a small district in Uttar Pradesh 200 kilometres away from Lucknow. My father was an engineer in the army…

— Arunima Sinha

My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the…

— Louise Erdrich

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

— Samuel Wilson

My mom was a nurse, and my dad worked in the Health Ministry as a civil servant. When I was 6 years old, my…

— Chamath Palihapitiya

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

— Sal Khan

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in…

— Marilyn Hacker

My father gave me formal education in raagdari. He died in Lahore in 1964 when I was 13. I was in the tenth year…

— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

I am going to miss working with my father. Together, we scaled many mountains, and I would never have had the success I have…

— Shane Mosley

My mother taught in the schools in Toronto Centre.

— Annamie Paul