Grace Paley Quotes

Not a Harvard-type education, just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.

The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence.

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

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

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

I've had training in electronics engineering, of all things, and in languages. But I've never taken any degree, something I share with Lewis Mumford, I think.

I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'

The unemployment rate today for people with our-year college degrees is 4.1%, which is almost none. That's people switching jobs basically. That tells you that education is the only way up and the only way out. If that is the fact, then we've got to get more of it for more people.

I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.

But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or George Washington go? Did George Washington go to college? This idea which we now have that people ought to have these credentials is really ridiculous. Where did Homer go to college?

I'm married to a dear little girl who holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

I don't have a college degree.

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

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.

I actually went to university.

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.

A generation ago, it wasn't necessary to have a college degree to get into the middle class …

College education is the engine of social mobility in this country.

I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.

I had an excellent Ivy League education, and it gave me a long view of things.

Having more education is one of the biggest predictors of women having careers.

I've worked for a long time to get myself in a position where maybe I'd be fortunate enough to land one of the big jobs.

I never went to university.