Abbie Hoffman Quotes

I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

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

I've always said I didn't want to coach. But I can't coach in college because I don't have my degree. So I want to give myself opportunities. A degree is something everyone should have.

In my family, graduating and getting your bachelor's is just the beginning. It's only expected. You're underachieving if you don't strive for more than that.

College was a very necessary step along the way to my professional career. As I look back, I realize how much of an eye opener it was for me in terms of moving forward and developing as a basketball player.

Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world

I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.

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

As an instructor at Alexandria University, I did research that was published in international journals. Although I left to pursue a doctorate in the United States, it was not for want of a good life.

By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.

I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance.

As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.

I think I really benefited from going to college.

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.

I'm not sure if I'll become Dr. Du Toit. I'm at the early stages of a long journey.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

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