William Standish Knowles Quotes

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

There's so much pressure on young people to go to university when they're 18 or 19, but actually, in the grand scheme of it, I don't think it matters to do it at that time.

I always thought that a prep school was what some people went to after high school to prepare themselves for college.

I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I could have stayed in college and still recorded. Isn't that something? The kids of today are doing it.

I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

You have, unfortunately, a K-12 educational system where the requirements to graduate are not the requirements to be college and career-ready. So if you want young adults who are college and career-ready, our K-12 system right now does not have that as its standard.

I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Bard.

It is our duty as legislators to protect the success of our students as they pursue higher education.

I grew up in Kentucky, and went to boarding school outside Boston at Phillips Academy Andover for two years.

I was lucky enough to go to boarding school for my high school years, and I had all the resources that I possibly could needed - squash courts and every book you ever would have wanted, every art supply.

My senior year of high school, I probably wouldn't get so much out of it as if I went to college.

Because I did well at the prep school, I got to have more options as some different universities gave me offers.

College is right for some people, and it's not for others. I shouldn't rush into it just because that's what everyone does after high school is you go to college.

I did a deal with my parents to take a year out before university at the end of 1992 to try and forge a career in motor sport. I still haven't gone. I left school at 18 and that was it.

I think it's a great thing that players have to go to school for at least a year. I think it definitely helps you in the long run.

I never did figure on being a college man.

Educating bold and ambitious children from cradle to career stands as a clear and foundational goal for Georgia.

My whole life, they said, 'Do not act. You need to get a college degree'.

When I grew up, I was just another kid who wasn't going to college.

If I were to be a role model, it would just come out of going the college route, getting training, and trusting that's the most secure path you can take - a path where a degree is involved. You know you went to college, and you have that under your belt.

I just believe strongly that anybody who wants to pursue additional education after high school ought to be given that chance.

When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.

I had very little going for me as a kid except for the fact that I had demanding parents and was very good at filling out bubbles on standardized tests. I went to the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University because I did well on the SAT. I went to Exeter because I did well on the SAT.

I've experienced first-hand how the system is in Germany. I've seen how well-developed and professional they are, even at a young age. I learned and grew so much as an individual there.

Yeah, my parents really valued education; they were both educators. But it was definitely true that I grew up in an area where a lot people didn't go to college. A lot of people did two years, a kind of terminal two years at community college.