Adrian Anthony Gill Quotes

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

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

Everyone praises Harvard 'for the students.' But what makes Harvard's students so great is that they are, in many ways, a cross-section of the larger world. They are normal people who happen to be excellent, and this sets them apart. People who go to Yale go because they want to attend Yale. People who go to Harvard go because they can.

Had Barack Obama been obliged to take his degree at the University of Akron, say, it is doubtful that his progress would have been remotely as stellar.

When I was at Paisley Grammar we were equipped to compete with the private-school kids - and encouraged to do so. The sky was the limit, provided we had ability, ambition and a capacity for hard work.

I see the young guys coming out of college. They are bombing it past me. They hit it so far, they are leaving me in the dust.

At Horace Mann High School in affluent Riverdale, New York, one of the top schools in the country, those who receive double time on tests are plentiful enough to qualify as their own segment of the student body. Known to their peers as 2Ts, they participate in the same activities, get the same grades, and attend the same range of colleges.

I went to great schools. Wharton School, a lot of great places.

Le Pen is old; I'm young.

I studied at Howard. I studied at Oxford.

Harvard is the home of American ideas.

For a man with an impressive educational C.V., Ben Carson makes a lot of intellectual missteps.

Stereotyped as convention-going, pocket-protector-wearing, chess-playing, infrequently-showering types, nerds are one of our society's most ridiculed groups. And, for a university with an international reputation as a bastion of intellectualism, Harvard is startlingly devoid of them.

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

I had two parents who were doctors, and my mom was valedictorian in multiple classes.

My parents were bookish, very musical, but otherwise uninvolved in the arts or the academic world.

I had a great time at Oxford, got a wonderful, wonderful education there.

I studied finance and was a topper.

I want that three quad program! That's what's going to set me apart in the U.S.

As soon as I learned that I was a finalist, it was no question in my mind that I was going to put myself into the competition for the Rhodes scholarship.

When I was 24, I won a Rhodes Scholarship.

Both my girls have always made great grades in school.

It's a little hard to believe 40-year-old men as high school students.