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| Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ~ Ambrose Bierce, |
| A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. ~ John Ciardi |
| 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. ~ Abbott Lawrence Lowell |
| A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ~ Theodore Roosevelt |
| If you have a college degree you can be absolutely sure of one thing… you have a college degree. ~ Author Unknown |
| If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. ~ Robert Goheen, |
| It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ~ Brooks Atkinson, |
| A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep. ~ W.H. Auden |
| The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. ~ Russell Green |
| A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B. ~ "Fats" Domino |
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| Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn’t. ~ L.L. Hendren |
| College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night? ~ David Wood |
| A liberal education… frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. ~ Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner. ~ Will Rogers |
| A college education shows a man how little other people know. ~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton |
| The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. ~ J. Frank Dobie |
| I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms – Truman’s and Eisenhower’s. ~ Alex Karras |
| The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure. ~ Sydney J. Harris |
| College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. ~ Elbert Hubbard |
| College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. ~ George Gobel |
| A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job. ~ Caroline Bird |
| I learned three important things in college – to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. ~ Agnes DeMille, |
| The new appears as a minority point of view, and hence is unpopular. The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that? ~ Author unknown |
| Hitler destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| The purpose of primary education is the development of your weak characteristics; the purpose of university education, the development of your strong. ~ Nevin Fenneman |
| I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best – it’s all they’ll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money – provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don’t need it. ~ Peter DeVries |
| Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money. ~ Author Unknown |