Angela Rayner Quotes

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

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

I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

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

I was raised by a single mother, and she felt the Japanese education system, albeit wonderful, keeps you in a certain range. You have to be better than this level but below this level.

You don't immediately adopt the values and the framework of this, the academically successful world, just because okay now you kids get to go to high school.

Sometimes political correctness runs amok in our public education system where we think that every kid can go to a four-year university.

My parents were typical Asian parents, and they do, like all parents, want their children to be successful. They really encouraged my brother and I to study math and science, and that's what we did as kids.

My parents were educated in the Turkish system and went straight from high school to medical school; my mom, who had skipped a grade, was dissecting corpses at age seventeen. Growing up in America, I think I envied my parents' education. By comparison, everything I did in school seemed so sort of low-stakes and infantilizing.

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Colleges sort as much as they teach.

Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?

The Scholastic Aptitude Tests do not predict success any better than the socio economic status of the parents.

College education is the engine of social mobility in this country.

If I came home with a grade of A, my father would say, 'There must have been a lot of dummies in that class.'

I am the product of the American education system. It is a system that has always been on the lookout for bright boys and girls. It spotted me when I was 14, and I owe a tremendous debt to my alma mater.

There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well.

I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

It doesn't matter what college you go to.

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

I was a very studious student and usually got A's. I did not like school, because I wasn't popular - I was a nerd.