David Rockefeller Quotes

By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

I loved the college experience of studying.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.

I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.

I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago.

As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

Believe it or not, the first spark for everything I've done today came down to me meeting one person in college who changed my life. A student named Anthony Adams who lived across the hall from me in our freshman dorm showed me what it meant to be an 'entrepreneur' when I saw him launch his own start-up company.

The University of Maryland was an inspiration for me, and the relationships I made there have lasted a lifetime.

A great education is a passport to a new life

I went to - I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years, I accumulated a lot of knowledge, but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.

A college degree is not essential, but if you're already in college, and if it's at all possible, you should definitely try to finish. In college, you have a very supportive community right there, and it can give you opportunities to try out new things.

Attending USC has been such a great experience for me and has really helped prepare me for my next step in life.

I think college has helped me.

The diploma has become a brand and learning should never be about a brand. Learning, the real kind, actually never ends.

I definitely enjoyed it and I am glad I did university - four years of not being in the public eye - and I met all my best friends doing it, so I am definitely glad it happened.

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.

When I'm done playing basketball, I want do something bigger. I'm working on my doctorate right now at Barry University in Florida.

Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

There's natural mentoring that goes on in my life every day.

I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, 'Oh! This is what it's all about.' And then I became an A student. I studied journalism in college and that's what really kicked it into high gear for me.