Graduate Quotes - page 12

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education. (Spike Lee)
By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education. View quote
Bill Gates
Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral. View quote
Bill Gates
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. View quote
Robertson Davies
...Yuri Khanin, a young composer, this year a graduate of the Leningrad Conservatory managed to do everything about the orchestration, arrangement and choice of instruments in a very precise way. It was done with an ideal exactitude. Never before had I worked with composers so much, and I was really struck by his understanding. I think that sound, no less than the image, should produce not only emotional impact, but is to have an altogether independent semantic meaning. The spirituality of the film as if finds its expression through the sound. And spirituality would not emerge by itself. If you might sometimes fail to keep alive the memory of a visual image in your mind and in your heart the soul would never forget sounds... View quote
Alexander Sokurov
It is amazing how stupid one can be in graduate school, because while I was puzzling through L1(Y) = Y/V = M1, the income velocity of money, I missed all the fun. View quote
George Goodman
The products of American high schools are illiterate; and a degree from a famous college or university is no guarantee that the graduate is in any better case. One of the most remarkable features of American society is that the difference between the "uneducated" and the "educated" is so slight. View quote
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school. View quote
Marilynne Robinson
I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my fiction to some degree, because, you know, my fiction is often based on history that I've read. View quote
Marilynne Robinson
Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college. View quote
Michael Bloomberg
I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my passion for the digital narrative into graduate school as well (also at Berkeley, the Oxford of the West or, perhaps, the Harvard - sorry Stanford!). My first project out of grad school was 'Wired' magazine. (John Battelle)
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. View quote
Ted Nelson
I call myself a citizen artist, because one of the things I do is try to get my playwrights - especially my graduate playwrights - interested in the world. It's about how you connect art to culture and community here and now, and how we are vital to the expression of our community... View quote
Luis Alfaro
I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company which publishes seven professional economic newsletters), of being ignorant of sociology (although I am trained in sociology and was C. Wright Mills' research assistant at Columbia), of being unable to use statistics (although I earned my living as a professional statistician for five years) and of ignoring political factors (although all my graduate training was in political science). View quote
Lloyd deMause
Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems. View quote
Derek Bok
The policy of affirmative action, however, was never able to distinguish someone like me (a graduate student of English, ambitious for a college teaching career) from a slightly educated Mexican-American who lived in a barrio and worked as a menial laborer, never expecting a future improved. Worse, affirmative action made me the beneficiary of his conditions. View quote
Richard Rodriguez
When I sought admission to graduate schools, when I applied for fellowships and summer study grants, when I needed a teaching assistantship, my Spanish surname or the dark mark in the space indicating my race-‘check one'-nearly always got me whatever I asked for. View quote
Richard Rodriguez
It's a good reminder of something that I've said over the last couple of weeks, which is our way of life -- our freedoms, our ability to go about our business every day, raising our kids and seeing them grow up and graduate from high school. View quote
Barack Obama
'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score. View quote
Hans Zimmer
though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience. View quote
Edith Hamilton
First of all,” said Dr. Nacozi to me, "I want you to know that I realize you have a brilliant mind.” "Me?” I said, feeling shocked. "Yes, you,” he said. "And maybe you haven't done that well in school in the past, but this is all about to change very rapidly for you, because the further you go in university life, the more apt you are to find minds like your own. I never had many friends until I got into graduate school. Before that ... well, I always felt confused and lost,” he said, laughing. "And not very capable with the girls and in my social life, either. (Victor Villaseñor)
Progress in economics is said to take place through a cumulative process in which scholars build on the work of their predecessors. In an age when graduate syllabi contain few references to books and articles written as many as ten years ago, this is too infrequently the case. View quote
Barry Eichengreen
I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A. View quote
Jonathan Haidt
If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you. View quote
Noam Chomsky
I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net. View quote
Jon Postel