General
College Quotes
Look
to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is
truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the
techniques.
- Charles Guggenheim
The things
taught in schools and colleges are not an education,
but the means to an education.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The
college undergraduate is a lot of things--many of them
as familiar, predictable and responsible as the bounce
of a basketball, and others as startling (and occasionally
disastrous) as the bounce of a football.
- John Sloan Dickey
Education
is what remains when one has forgotten everything he
learned in school.
- Albert Einstein
America's
future walks through the doors of our schools every
day.
- Mary Jean LeTendre
College is
a refuge from hasty judgment.
- Robert Frost
The
purpose of the university is to make students safe for
ideas -- not ideas safe for students.
- Clark
Kerr
A college
education is not a quantitative body of knowledge salted
away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a
taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore,
to question, to perceive relationships, between fields
of knowledge and experience.
- A. Whitney Griswold
The direction
in which education starts a man will determine his future
life. - Plato
The university
is the archive of the Western ideal, the keeper of the
Western culture, the guardian of our heritage, the dwelling
of the free mind, the teacher of teachers.
- Adlai Stevenson
Funny
College Quotes
College professor--someone
who talks in other people's sleep
- Bergen Evans
Economists
report that a college education adds many thousands
of dollars to a man's lifetime income--which he then
spends sending his son to college.
- Bill Vaughn
I have never
let schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain
If you feel
that you have both feet planted on solid ground, then
the university has failed you.
- Robert Gohen
The chief
value in going to college is that it's the only way
to learn it really doesn't matter.
- George Edwin Howes
The freshmen
bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none
out, so it accumulates through the years.
- A. Lawrence Lowell
You can lead
a boy to college, but you can't make him think.
- Elbert Hubbard
A senior
always feels like the university is going to the kids.
- Tom Masson
Without education
we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated
people seriously.
- G.K. Chesterson
The
important thing is the educational experience itself
-- how to survive it. - Donald
Barthelme
