Education
In "Food to Die For", Beckett becomes reacquainted with her old high school friend, Madison Queller, who revealed that Beckett attended Stuyvesant High School. Madison stated they shared 9th grade French and expressed her surprise that "the biggest scofflaw at Stuy became a cop".
In the series premiere, "Flowers for Your Grave", Castle performs a cold reading of Beckett stating his belief that most smart, good-looking women like her become lawyers and not police officers. He also speculates that she had a good college education and likely had many career options. In "A Dance with Death", Beckett states that she was pre-law at Stanford and that she had wanted to become the first female Chief Justice. She was 19 at the time of her mother's murder, which is implied to be the reason for her change in career paths. In "Close Encounters of the Murderous Kind", Castle asks Beckett about her views on deficit spending during difficult economic times and she indicates that she took a semester of economic theory at NYU.
Throughout the series, Beckett demonstrates functional knowledge of a broad range of general topics she has studied, to the point of having ready familiarity with and informed opinions on those topics, even in subjects she did not specialize in during her education or subsequent career, such as literature or economics. Castle occasionally remarks that he finds her intelligent and educated and that his character of Nikki Heat was written to reflect these traits.
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Famous quotes containing the word education:
“Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we’re selling this deadly stuff anyway?”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
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—C. John Sommerville (20th century)