Kerby Jean-Raymond Quotes

I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, with the exception of two B's in the first term. I never envisaged myself as summa cum laude.

When I was 24, I won a Rhodes Scholarship.

I was a member of the Fab Five at the University of Michigan, but I was also on the Dean's List there. I took pride in my education.

I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.

The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.

You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.

I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.

At the commencements I attended, graduates were classified by their academic rankings. Outstanding academic performance was noted in the programs and awarded with special honors.

I had full rank scholarship to the University of Michigan, which anybody in the north will tell you, I don't know anyone that has had that at the University of Michigan, which tells you that I was a stand up student.

In school, I was good in academics and extracurricular activities. I even topped the state in French in my Std 12 exams.

My daughter was never offered 'Student Of The Year 2.'

I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an honorary Doctor of Laws. So, would somebody please tell me why I spent four mortal hours today conversing with a person named Dizzy Dean.

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.

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.

I was always a very good student.

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919.

I was a great student. I was good at everything.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.

Sure enough, it wasn't long until I got a call, telling me I had a scholarship there. It was the only scholarship offer I had and, believe me, I jumped at it.

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.

I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.