Henry David Thoreau Quotes About College

• Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Block, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “Journal: Dec. 1, 1853-Aug. 31, 1854”

• Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge college is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.

  Henry David Thoreau

  College, Men, Space

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

• Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges. The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Running, Father

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.38, Xist Publishing

• The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,--a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,--to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, College, Division Of Labor

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.39, Graphic Arts Books

• I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, College, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Cape Cod (Annotated Edition)”, p.137, Jazzybee Verlag

• As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting a compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, College, Progress

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.84

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