Philip Green Quotes

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

My mum's always had big aspirations because I'm an academic. I always got good grades at school. GCSEs were just a breeze for me.

It was my dream to come to Oxford and study political science.

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

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.

I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

While my parents never had the time or money to secure university education themselves, they were adamant that their children should. In comfort and in love, we were taught the joys of knowledge and of work well done. I only regret that neither my mother nor my father could live to see the day I would accept the Nobel Prize.

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

My parents don't press it but, you know, they're into good grades.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Yes, I was a big math and computer geek, that's true. I was driven by the scholastic side of things. For me, it was all about what I could do with math and computers.

They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago.

I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to university.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers.

Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

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