Quotes About Graduate Education

#1. I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact.

Satya Nadella

#2. We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.

Charles Vest

#3. Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#4. I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.

Chen-Ning Yang

#5. It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here.

Ruth Simmons

#6. I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot in Patuxent River, Maryland, for a few years. I was back in the fleet in the Navy when I was selected to come back here to NASA to become an astronaut.

Alan G. Poindexter

#7. But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.

Daniel J. Evans

#8. Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

Joe Baca

#9. Graduate school introduces student to extensive knowledge search.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. A graduate can be academically excellent but morally and spiritually bankrupt. We need to consider these dimensions in education as well.

John Eidsmoe

#12. My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

Jillian Bach

#13. If you are still breathing, don not stop learning.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. If students don't think that you care and can relate, especially as they get older, they tune you out. I didn't get it in my classes at the graduate school of education. I got it intuitively from my own experiences as a student.

Pedro Noguera

#15. If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.

Richard J. Foster

#16. The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school.

Robert Shapiro

#17. My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.

Jennifer Garner

#18. If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.

Kathy Reichs

#19. Every great achiever overcame the greatest obstacles.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.

Donna Shalala

#21. The pursuit of PhD is enduring daring adventure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.

Geoffrey Canada

#23. What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?

Brad Gooch

#24. PhD is possible at any age!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. Graduate study is an intensive education.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.

James Cronin

#27. Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

Adam Gopnik

#28. When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

Andy Rooney

#29. A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

Malcolm X

#30. The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.

Harold Holzer

#31. I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.

Ma Ying-jeou

#32. Increasing education options will give students greater opportunities to succeed in the classroom and allow students to graduate with skill sets necessary to go to college or into a career.

Mary Fallin

#33. If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate - first we must make quality, affordable early childhood education accessible to all.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#34. If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

Janet Napolitano

#35. I also able to graciously survive the PhD from the grace, which comes from prayer, bible reading, extensive story reading, fasting, fellowship, listen to music, daily dance and sacred writing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#36. No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

Gordon Brown

#37. One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#38. Spiritual learners too slowly graduate like students of normal education. If you are mentally elevated, you can grasp and appreciate complex teachings.

Girdhar Joshi

#39. 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

#40. 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.

Bill Gates

#41. PhD made me poorer, without money, but richer in thoughts.

Lailah Gifty Akita