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.
Unknown, Author
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
Hitler destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without.
Fischer, Martin H.
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
Hutchins, Robert Maynard
A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.
Levinson, Leonard L.
The average Ph. D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
Dobie, J. Frank
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
Auden, W.H.
College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
Hubbard, Elbert
I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that?
Unknown, Author
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.
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence
Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure.
Fischer, Martin H.
Academe, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n. A modern school where football is taught.
Bierce, Ambrose
College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.
Gobel, George