1930s Quote by Stephen Ambrose

I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s.

— Kurt Loder

My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or…

— Herbert Schiller

I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an…

— Big Sean

Business schools tend to focus on topics that are suitable to blackboards, so they overemphasize organization and finance. Until very recently, they virtually ignored…

— Charles R. Morris

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

— P. J. O'Rourke

My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was…

— Carmen Busquets

I went to school in the 70s and the 80s, and the last thing I expected of my schools back then was that they…

— David Olusoga

I know firsthand that educators are the most overworked and underpaid people around. It influenced me in that it was always about family first,…

— Wendy Williams

In my father's time - he was in college during many transitions in the late 1930s - they had great institutional loyalties... to his…

— Whit Stillman

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I…

— George Stigler

I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way.

— Sebastian Thrun