Justine Bateman Quotes

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

If I was going to go to college, I had to have a scholarship. By my sophomore year, it was evident golf was not going to be the path.

I got into Temple University on a track scholarship.

I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.

It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.

My mom never went to college, but for her own children, getting a great education was not an option.

I was the first in my family to go to college.

People would ask what college are you going to, and I'd say, 'San Diego State.' And they'd say, 'Why?'

I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

Access to a college degree is critical.

Education is an incredibly personal issue for me. If you're the first generation to go to college, sometimes you don't realize your potential until others point it out.

A lot of the education that I got at Michigan State I still use to this very day.

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I asked my guidance counselor what Ivy League schools were. And I applied to Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth - that was it. My guidance counselor told me I wouldn't get into an Ivy League school. So as my act of resistance, that's all I applied to.

When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.

Let's say you work at a university or a college. You are a cog in the one of the great inequality producing machines this country has known.

It never even crossed my mind I wouldn't go to college.

Without an education, you won't have a future.

I kept up top grades, and by senior year, a flow of mailed college recruiting brochures accumulated into an avalanche on our dining room table.

I feel it has become increasingly competitive. There are some insane cut-offs to get into a lot of colleges.