College Quotes - Page 36

• As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If it I had taken Hygiene 71 seriously, I would have become a monk; & if I had taken college English seriously, I would have become an accountant.

  Jerome Rothenberg

  Sex, Taken, Taught Us

  Jerome Rothenberg (1981). “Pre-faces & Other Writings”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

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• The first aim of a good college is not to teach books, but the meaning and purpose of life. Hard study and the learning of books are only a means to this end. We develop power and courage and determination and we go out to achieve Truth, Wisdom and Justice. If we do not come to this, the cost of schooling is wasted.

  John B. Watson

  Determination, Book, Mean

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• In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school, college, or university without ever having cared for, or even held, a baby; without ever having looked after someone who was old, ill, or lonely; or without ever having comforted or assisted another human being who really needed help... No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations, and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Baby, Motivation, School

  "The Ecology of Human Development".

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• I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, Years, Creative

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• A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated?

  Charles Stross

  Religious, Issues, Pigs

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.156, Penguin

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• I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.

  Kay Granger

  Mother, Teacher, Teaching

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• If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.

  A. Theodore Tuttle

  Life, Teacher, Teaching

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• Most people walking around in a mall or on a college campus are carrying on them better technology than the entire U.S. government had when it put a man on the moon. Each one of us is a walking technological superpower.

  Van Jones

  Moon, Technology, Men

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college. You think, I'm joking, they're almost all gymnasts, the stuff they do on hard wood, it blows my mind.

  Joe Biden

  Athlete, Blow, Thinking

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• Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated to this community and would utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit this community first and foremost.

  Michelle Obama

  Careers, Community, Black

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• Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Education, Art, Students

  "Joseph E. Stiglitz - Biographical". "Les Prix Nobel" ("The Nobel Prizes 2001") edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. 2002.

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• Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Wisdom, Men, Order

  Elbert Hubbard (1928). “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great ...”

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• I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning.

  Mario Cantone

  Morning, School, Sleep

  "Standup Mario Cantone won't miss his bus to the Hard Rock". Interview with Rod Stafford Hagwood, www.sun-sentinel.com. October 10, 2012.

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• All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Southern, Black, Students

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• I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.

  Dakota Fanning

  Parent, Vision, Married

  "Dakota Fanning Single, Admits She ‘Cannot Be Bothered’ With Boys", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2013.

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• I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.

  Dick Gephardt

  Teaching, Class, Abortion

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• You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

  Stanley Clarke

  School, Play, Bass

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• It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.

  T. E. Brown

  Always Trying, Wish, Looks

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• Before I had decided to get into politics, I was laying the groundwork to have a career in the law, but that was really to lay the foundation to teach, either at the college level or law school level after my federal clerkships.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  School, Law, Careers

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• When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.

  Robert Hass

  Years, Tuition, Rooms

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• I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.

  Tony Iommi

  Jobs, School, Good Enough

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• I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.

  Sue Grafton

  Summer, Teacher, Kentucky

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• Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.

  Kent McCord

  Study, Obsolescence

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• At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

  Barnaby Keeney

  Teaching, School, People

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• At AT&T, I learned an awful lot about people, and how important it is to have the right people in the right jobs. And when I say 'right people,' I'm not talking about their college degree or work history; I'm talking about things like bearing - How does this person interact with other people? Can he or she talk to you and not tick you off?

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Jobs, Talking, People

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