Educational Milestones Quotes

I didn't abandon my studies. Because I was, through no - clarify this. Through no particular genius of my own, I was the first person from Libertyville Public High School to attend Harvard, not because I was smarter than anyone or better than anyone, but no one had ever applied before. It was like University of Illinois, a fine institution, was the sort of the upper echelon of places where kids went from that school. And so I felt sort of a duty to myself and my peers to continue with those studies, and to continue to, intellectually arm myself for my coming struggles.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.

The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

I finished school, because I started when I was thirteen, so basically around 16 or 17, I just focused on finishing high school.

It is crazy. It's our first kid, and all of a sudden, she identifies letters as what they are, and you go, 'This kid is a genius - she's obviously some sort of savant!'

It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

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.

Four times, under our educational rules, the human pack is shuffled and cut - at eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus - and happy is he who comes top of the deck on each occasion, but especially the last. This is called Finals, the very name of which implies that nothing of importance can happen after it.

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.

Then to have your baby playing at the school you played at and having him play well is a special treat.

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