Rhiannon Giddens Quotes

I think college has helped me.

I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

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

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.

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.

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

I think I really benefited from going to college.

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

All of us just go to college and waste our time and to pass our exams. So just learning journalism does not mean I'm good at it or any of the journalists are, either. There is no difference; it's just class, and it's just college.

Education is such an important tool for success, and probably the most important one.

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

Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

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 definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting?' It didn't make sense to me anymore. It's not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any.

A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society.

A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers.

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

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

I didn't go to university, and I always had in my mind that I hadn't studied properly.