 Ramsay was also noted for his contributions to daffodil breeding.Ramsay studied at Victoria University of Wellington, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree, as well as a Diploma of Education and a Diploma of Teaching from Wellington Teachers' College.His MA thesis, supervised by Ian McLaren and completed in 1969, was titled "Planning, policy, and practice in Maori education, 1936–1968", and examined some of the reasons for the relative underachievement of Māori in education at that time as identified by the Hunn Report.