Richard Rhodes Quotes

I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school.

The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

Children … "inherit" the economic position of their parents primarily through the transmission of human capital.

I come from a middle-class family in Gwalior.

My parents weren't cultured people.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.

I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

Outside of the family, education is the greatest determinant of social mobility.

I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.

I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.

I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

I was always kind of a school person - my parents were teachers, and my grandparents were immigrants, so their big thing was, 'Go to college, go to college, go to college.'

My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

Over time, my students have gotten richer and more educated.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.