College Courses Quotes

• The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.

  William Osler

  Teacher, Educational, College

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.339, Duke University Press

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• The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit and there are no summers off - not even semester breaks.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life, Summer, College

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• I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life's work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.

  John D. Rockefeller

  College, Men, Thinking

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.34, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

  Bobby Scott

  Education, Mean, College

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• In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Education, Money, Work

  Phyllis Schlafly (2015). “Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I”, p.60, Creators Publishing

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• There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

  T. D. Jakes

  Self Esteem, Home, School

  "Mega Church Leader Bishop T.D. Jakes". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. May 2, 2006.

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• I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.

  LL Cool J

  School, Mean, College

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• "What is it with people these days?" he hisses... "In my day, something just was. None of this analysis a hundred times over. None of these college courses with people graduating with degrees in Whys and Hows and Becauses. Sometimes, love, you just need to forget all of those words and enroll in a little lesson called 'Thank You.'"

  Cecelia Ahern

  Gratitude, Love You, College

  "Thanks for the Memories". Book by Cecelia Ahern, 2008.

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• It's an incredible education [for the movie J. Edgar Hoover] . It was like I did a college course on J. Edgar Hoover but not knowing and understanding the history and reading the books, but understanding what motivated this man was the most fascinating part of the research.

  Dustin Lance Black

  Book, Reading, College

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Religious, Believe, College

  William Lyon Phelps (1922). “Human Nature in the Bible”

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• For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed by the tastes and needs of the moment. Only libraries take the long view, quietly shelving the unused with the used, knowing that one of these days the two categories will be reversed by a student's discovery of those hitherto undisturbed volumes whose contents will unsettle the learned world.

  Helen Vendler

  College, Discovery, Views

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