Eric Greitens Quotes

This great Western institution, the university, dominates the world today more than any other institution: more than the church, more than the government, more than all other institutions. All the leaders of government are graduates of universities, or at least of secondary schools or colleges whose administrators and teachers are themselves graduates of universities….professionals—doctors, engineers, lawyers, etc. have all passed through the mill of the secondary school, the college and the university. And the men of the media are university trained

I've had an amazing experience at Syracuse University.

The chips fall into place, but the educational experience I had at Cal, second to none.

Sometimes you have Harvard undergraduates who stun you with the depth of their knowledge. That is why it is great to be at a university like this.

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.

I've had a wonderful experience here at Penn State.

If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.

I think I really benefited from going to college.

I'm a big fan of Purdue as an institution and in its role of educating the next-generation workforce.

I studied at Howard. I studied at Oxford.

I went to school at the University of Utah, and they had outstanding facilities and coaches that helped me grow and mature as a person.

It was my dream to come to Oxford and study political science.

I could go to Oxford, I could immerse myself in a new culture, I could develop my intellectual capital, I could expand my network, I can travel from country to country like it's state to state, and being in that fraternity of Rhodes Scholars was just a truly special demarcation.

My family has always valued my education.

Universities are fantastic places to gain knowledge on a subject, develop a personal network, explore your character and learn new techniques to approach problems.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

When I was growing up, I was lucky to benefit from a first class education.

I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.

In Venezuela, which doesn't have thousands of prestige universities like the U.S., people usually stay at home while attending to college. After they graduate, they move for a job or get married.

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.

As an instructor at Alexandria University, I did research that was published in international journals. Although I left to pursue a doctorate in the United States, it was not for want of a good life.