Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American educator Freeman A. Hrabowski III.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Freeman Alphonsa Hrabowski III is an American educator, advocate, and mathematician. In May 1992, he began his term as president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), one of the twelve public universities composing the University System of Maryland. Hrabowski has been credited with transforming UMBC into an institution noted for research and innovation. Under his leadership, UMBC was ranked the #1 Up and Coming University in the U.S. for six consecutive years (2009-2014) by the U.S. News and World Report magazine. When that designation was retired, U.S. News and World Report began including UMBC on its annual Most Innovative National Universities list.
I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college.
Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.
In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.
It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.
I guarantee the people who study are going to be successful. Nothing can replace hard work.
What people don't realize is that everybody needs support, one way or another.
When you give of yourself, it's draining.
I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.
There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.
Speak up. You have to project! If people can't hear you, it doesn't matter what you say.
Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.
My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.
I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.
It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.
Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.
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There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who
DRAIN energy.