Winona LaDuke Quotes

The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.

My mum wanted me to go to university.

I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.

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

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting?' It didn't make sense to me anymore. It's not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very interested in knowledge. He insisted that I get as much education as my brothers.

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

I didn't go to university, and I always had in my mind that I hadn't studied properly.

I was graduated in 1940 with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Social Science but a major in Mathematics, a paradoxical combination that was prognostic of my future interests.

I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.

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

I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

I have not the advantage of a classical education, and no man should, in my judgement, accept a degree he cannot read.

A university is a place that is established and will function for the benefit of society provided it is a center of independent thought.

I went to - I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years, I accumulated a lot of knowledge, but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.

I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school. I mean that on all levels - I like educational environments; I like being part of that community of learning and exploration. And I like to talk.

I never went to university.

Go to school and get your education and follow your dreams.

I come from an academic background, and I have a genuine interest in social change.