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
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
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
The
purpose of primary education is the development of your weak characteristics;
the purpose of university education, the development of your strong.
Nevin Fenneman
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
The
quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out
than the kind it takes in.
Robert J. Kibbee
Standardization
is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but
flowers do not grow in pure manure.
Martin H. Fischer
Hitler
destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without.
Martin H. Fischer
College
football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting
does to agriculture.
Elbert Hubbard
I
never graduated from Iowa,
but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.
Alex
Karras
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
If
you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university
has failed you.
Robert Goheen
The
advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth
which it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green
A
university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the
students.
John Ciardi
If
you have a college degree you can be absolutely sure of one thing... you have a
college degree.
Author Unknown
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
The
average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard
to another.
J. Frank Dobie
A
liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a
standard, a set of ideas, not a job.
Caroline Bird
A
college education shows a man how little other people know.
Thomas
Chandler Haliburton
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
No
man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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
A
place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
Robert G.
Ingersoll
I
have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that?
Author
unknown
Fathers
send their sons to college either because they went to college or they
didn't.
L.L. Hendren
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
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
Academe,
n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.
Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose
Bierce
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