Achievement Quote by Oliver Tambo

In 1958, my father graduated from secondary school as the highest-achieving student in the state of Kansas, earning a five-year scholarship to the Massachusetts…

— Vivienne Ming

I would regret it if I'd failed at school and university, because if I had, I would have lacked the levels of education necessary…

— Thabo Mbeki

I did a history degree once.

— Joe Thomas

Harkening back to a story about my grandfather, I was lucky to attend a great high school in New York, Bronx High School of…

— Lewis Schiff

I studied secondary education.

— Jim McKay

Acing a history test in seventh grade taught me nothing. Failing 95% of my grammar quizzes in eighth grade made me work harder and…

— Harry Enten

After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and…

— Frederick Sanger

I'm a high school history teacher who got lucky.

— Mike Holmgren

During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I 'taught,' in…

— Simon Hoggart

I did make National Honors Society in high school.

— Rob Gronkowski

“Actually my father kept hinting to me the problem of getting good grades himself: the person who was at the exact bottom of his…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon