Teju Cole Quotes

I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

I grew up in Florida and went to school there, and ended up going to University of Central Florida.

I went to school at a place that also shaped my life, Boston Latin School.

I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.

Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.

I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.

I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend summers on the farm in Maryland. Then I went to boarding school in New Hampshire, to St. Paul's School. From there, I moved to London.

I commuted to the prestigious Hibiya High School from my uncle's home in Tokyo. During the high school years, I developed an interest in chemistry, so upon graduation, I chose to take an entrance examination for the Department of Chemistry of the University of Kyoto, the old capital of Japan.

I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.

I spent the better part of my developing years in Massachusetts.

I read a lot as a kid and in high school.

I went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years.

There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice.

I did most of my schooling in Miami.

I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

I actually didn't grow up in New York. I grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory.

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young.

I grew up in the West Village and went to the New York City Lab School for junior high.

I was born in Egypt, and my family moved to London when I was seven. I grew up mostly in Clapham, where I also went to school after a brief stint in Whitechapel.

I didn't go to the 12th grade... I stopped at 11.