Quotes on college
The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.
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A college education shows a man how little other people know.
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes
Hitler destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
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Robert Maynard Hutchins Quotes
A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.
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Leonard L. Levinson Quotes
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
The average Ph. D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
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J. Frank Dobie Quotes
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
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W.H. Auden Quotes
College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
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Elbert Hubbard Quotes
I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that?
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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
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Sydney J. Harris Quotes
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
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Abbott Lawrence Lowell Quotes
Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
Academe, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n. A modern school where football is taught.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.
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George Gobel Quotes