Katherine McNamara Quotes

I'm married to a dear little girl who holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

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

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.

My elder brother is a lecturer in a college in Haryana, and my eldest sister was a teacher. I feel they are more educated than I am. I, too, used to dream of becoming a teacher.

Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.

I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.

In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.

My brother's got two degrees. He got one for me.

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 could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education.

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

Respect for education—the idea that education will buy improvement in our lives—is one of the oldest and fundamental American ideas.

I was the first in my family to graduate college.

I was a good student. I started college at 16 years old and did okay.

I always knew I wanted an educational background, and my mum and dad were quite big on that.

I skipped ninth grade. I went from eighth to tenth, and then I graduated a year early to start working, and it was a big blessing for me because I was not a school person, although I really do miss having that kind of environment.

And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn't say the ones at my school were less capable. They could've been there.

Everybody in my family is very well educated. I'm probably the only one who is not a double post graduate.

My father's side of the family was very active in education.

My older sister, Amy Jo, and I - we are the first generation of my family to stay on at school and do any exams at all.

Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.

I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.

When I was six or seven, we went to the nearest English primary school, St Weonards, about seven miles away. The teaching was good, and this was the start of my beginning to shine as a student.

The most important thing for me is education, and my family were really supportive in making sure I did the best I could.