Ayobami Adebayo Quotes

The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

My mom is the type of mom who wonders why I haven't used my psychology degree to become a successful clinical psychologist.

I was pre-med at Glasgow University. I was from a family who were of the mind that if you were clever enough to be a doctor or a lawyer, why wouldn't you be?

I'm from an Indian family of professionals, and my parents had to go through hardships themselves to send me to IIT-Mumbai.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

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.

My parents would have loved me to go to university - Oxbridge, particularly.

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.

After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you ended up in an office you were dull and lacking. And I ended up in an office.

I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly exposed to as the heroes of our time.

When I finished school, everyone wanted to go to a good university and become a lawyer or a doctor. My A-levels were sort of chosen for me.

College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.

There is such pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything.

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.

There's a lot of pressure on kids, period, just to be successful in life.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.