Dick Strawbridge Quotes

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.

My brother's got two degrees. He got one for me.

Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.

My parents were typical Asian parents, and they do, like all parents, want their children to be successful. They really encouraged my brother and I to study math and science, and that's what we did as kids.

I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private school kids. I want them to behave well by example.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.

Competition among schools is always a great motivator.

I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.

They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago.

The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?

I stood as well as any in my class, but the test of scholarship at that day was contemptible

Fewer than 13 percent of high school students will continue to study math and science in college—usually the most well-prepared and persistent students who often come from families where encouragement and enrichment is fundamental

I was raised by a single mother, and she felt the Japanese education system, albeit wonderful, keeps you in a certain range. You have to be better than this level but below this level.

I was quite nerdy at school. I skipped a year and won a scholarship in chemistry.

I'm a child of academics.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

I was a very studious student and usually got A's. I did not like school, because I wasn't popular - I was a nerd.

The most important thing for me is education, and my family were really supportive in making sure I did the best I could.

My mum's always had big aspirations because I'm an academic. I always got good grades at school. GCSEs were just a breeze for me.