College Education Quotes - Page 3

• A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

  John Ciardi

  Inspirational, Education, Teenager

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• Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort.You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.

  David Byrne

  Book, College, Guarantees

  2004 In Scotland on Sunday, 29 Feb.

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Abraham Lincoln's Address Delivered in Candidacy for the State Legislature, March 9, 1832.

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• Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Education, College, Pebbles

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.676, Library of Alexandria

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters".

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• 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

  Graduation, College, Men

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

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• My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Teacher, Educational

  Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

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• To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

  Ayn Rand

  Teaching, College, Men

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.83, Penguin

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• No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

  Bobby Scott

  Education, Opportunity, College

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• There are many good reasons for young people to go off to college, open their minds, develop their skills and enjoy themselves. But probably the major attraction is the fact that income disparities have increased sharply between those who go to college versus those who do not. This pattern corresponds with the stagnation of average wages since the early 1970s. The reality under neoliberalism has been that, if you want to have a decent shot at a good-paying job with a chance for promotions and raises over time, the most important first step is to get a college education.

  Robert Pollin

  Reality, College, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

  Ray Bradbury

  Education, College, Years

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• If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

  Coolio

  Education, College, Graduates

  Song: The Winner

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• Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract arguments inside my head instead of simply paying attention to what's going on right in front of me. TC mark

  David Foster Wallace

  College, Attention, Stuff

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• If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, College, Years

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• If entrepreneurs were running schools, instead of bureaucrats, schools would be teaching a lot more of the skills and mindsets found in this book. Since they're not, this book is a necessary antidote to a traditional college education.

  Scott Banister

  Running, Teaching, Book

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• Women while in college ought to have the broadest possible education. This college education should be the same as men's, not only because there is but one best education, but because men's and women's effectiveness and happiness and the welfare of the generation to come after them will be vastly increased if their college education has given them the same intellectual training and the same scholarly and moral ideals.

  M. Carey Thomas

  College, Men, Effectiveness

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• Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.

  LL Cool J

  Education, Book, College

  Song: The Power of God, Album: Mama Said Knock You Out

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• That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

  Gaston Caperton

  College, World, Return

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• Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of.

  Criss Jami

  Creativity, College, Creative

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.77, Criss Jami

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• I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

  Phil Mickelson

  Sports, College, Thinking

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• When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Education, College, American Family

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• Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.

  Jane Fonda

  Children, Growing Up, Home

  "Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs Have Not Reduced Teen Pregnancy" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2009.

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• So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.

  Gordon Gee

  College, Challenges, Indispensable

  "The Promise of American Higher Education" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

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• Most people, I suspect, still have in their minds an image of America as the great land of college education, unique in the extent to which higher learning is offered to the population at large. That image used to correspond to reality. But these days young Americans are considerably less likely than young people in many other countries to graduate from college. In fact, we have a college graduation rate that's slightly below the average across all advanced economies.

  Paul Krugman

  Country, Unique, Reality

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• As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

  Sargent Shriver

  Education, College, Wind

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