James Hunt Quotes

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

When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.

Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

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

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result.

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?

Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.

I went to a liberal arts college wherein grading was qualitative and we had to write our own evaluations.

I would like my kids to study well.

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

I think we should see whether we are wise trying to educate everybody to a high standard the way we are trying to do now. There has to be a high level of education so everybody is literate, but whether university education is necessary for everyone is open to question.

Most people, I suspect, still have in their minds an image of America as the great land of college education, unique in the extent to which higher learning is offered to the population at large. That image used to correspond to reality. But these days young Americans are considerably less likely than young people in many other countries to graduate from college. In fact, we have a college graduation rate that's slightly below the average across all advanced economies.

I think even in American schools, they must be studying in a specialized manner.

Study! Study ! Study! Get an education.

Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?