John Morgridge Quotes

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

You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.

Competition among schools is always a great motivator.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.

My education in the public schools of New York City between 1932 and 1944 was an excellent preparation for a life in science. Because of the Depression, these schools were able to attract a remarkably talented and dedicated collection of teachers who encouraged their students to strive for the highest levels of accomplishment.

We are in an international marketplace for talent, and American colleges and universities need to be able to attract students and faculty from around the world if we want to sustain our excellence.

I was fortunate and worked hard to graduate top of my class as a primary school teacher and receive the Vere Foster Award, which is the medal given to the graduate who attains the highest mark in teaching practice.

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

A lot of great people come to Facebook. In our business, we're about how do we help connect our companies to great people across all levels.

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

The American people frankly have been, over many, many years - to be blunt - fat, dumb and happy. If they want their children to compete with children in India, China or Korea, they better get them a far better education.

I made good grades in school.

This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.

I come from a background that stresses education more than anything.

We just want to have great people working for us.

I love school. I was a great student.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.

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