academic progression Quotes

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

I progressed through my schooling, undergraduate and graduate degrees, excited about math and science and engineering, but really didn't think about being an astronaut at that point. It was kind of unreachable.

I've made it a policy to move every five years, either physically or in my research.

The first stop on this crazy train is Kindergarten Junction, and nobody gets off until it pulls into Harvard Station.

The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry, and another to square it, to give it gloss and lustre, call forth every beautiful spot and vein, shape it into a column, or animate it into a statue.

I ought to have Mike's Pirate School. The freshmen, all they get is the bandanna. When you're a senior, you get the sword and skull and crossbones. For homework, we'll work pirate maneuvers and stuff like that.

When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time in French classes. I went ahead and took courses on French literature, some of them even taught in French.

One discipline always leads to another discipline.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Bard.

Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.

In 1990, I was an undergraduate freshman archeology major sneaking over to the English building and unearthing an amazing repository of books I'd never even suspected. By 1998, I'd have my Ph.D.

The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.

The sixth grade made my life successful by preparing me for the seventh and the seventh by preparing me for the eighth and so on. May it do the same for you.