Hayley Mills Quotes

A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

I didn't wanna be looked at as no idiot, and I didn't wanna feel like I was uneducated, because I really stopped going to school at 15. I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit.

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

I have not the advantage of a classical education, and no man should, in my judgement, accept a degree he cannot read.

I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.

I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.

Having an education is invaluable.

I think, from every actor I've ever spoken to, they say the biggest thing they regret from life is not finishing school.

I have an education, I went to college, you know?

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

I never went to university.

Myself, I have a philosophy degree and a fake computer-science degree. I say fake because I really didn't learn anything.

Earning a certificate or degree, or both, after high school opens the door to countless economic opportunities.

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene

As the first member of my immediate family to graduate from college, I understand the importance access to high quality education plays in preparing our children to learn and compete in a competitive, global workforce.

All of us just go to college and waste our time and to pass our exams. So just learning journalism does not mean I'm good at it or any of the journalists are, either. There is no difference; it's just class, and it's just college.

I started off as a kid who didn't care what my education was.

I wasn't stupid, or very smart. I didn't finish my education.

My mother was a professor of English and History.

When I went to school, most parents wanted their children to get good A-levels, to go to university, and get a degree so your children had a better life than you. The way out of poverty was through a degree. But the whole world has moved on from that.