Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

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

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

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.

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.

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

In some ways I've gone to Cash and Carter graduate school.

Attending USC has been such a great experience for me and has really helped prepare me for my next step in life.

I've always said I didn't want to coach. But I can't coach in college because I don't have my degree. So I want to give myself opportunities. A degree is something everyone should have.

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

If my idea was just to maintain a certain lifestyle, there would be no need to get a Ph.D. But I do care very deeply about the idea side as well.

I actually didn't mind school, and I enjoyed university and college.

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

When people say that college isn't worthwhile and paying all this money isn't worthwhile, I really disagree. I think those experiences and those classes that may not necessarily seem applicable in the moment end up coming back to you time and time again.

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.

I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.

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

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

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.

All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it.

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

I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.

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

If you are willing to be a lifelong learner, you can be a lifelong employee.