College Quotes - Page 8

• College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.

  Tom Ford

  Political, Campus, Activity

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• I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years but I decided that college wasn't right for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do I didn't see how college was going to help me.

  Steve Jobs

  Ideas, Years, Parent

  Source: sites.google.com

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• Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Thinking, White

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.325, Bantam Classics

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• The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly.

  Derek Bok

  School, Entering, Helping

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• The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Goal, Meat, Ends

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.67, Oxford University Press

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• Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Education, Running, Retirement

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• College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation

  Vera Brittain

  Vegetation, Scholastics, Secluded

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• For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.

  Derek Bok

  Art, May, Way

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• If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Home, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.666, Modern Library

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• In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.

  Dennis Prager

  Race, White, America

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.59, Creators Publishing

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• If you wanted to create jobs in a way that has minimal effect on the deficit but has government action, the two best things you could do are the infrastructure bank and a simple SBA-like loan guarantee for all building retrofits, where the contractor or the energy-service company guarantees the savings. So that allows the bank to loan money to let a school or a college or a hospital or a museum or a commercial building unencumbered by debt to loan it on terms that are longer, so you can pay it back only from your utility savings. You could create a million jobs doing that.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, School, Simple

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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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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• I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard.
  I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward.

  MC Paul Barman

  Teacher, Rap, Hip Hop

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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 smoked with a lot of college students...
  Most of em wasn't graduatin, and they knew it.

  Redman

  Rap, Hip Hop, Ems

  Song: Whateva Man, Album: Muddy Waters

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• Even in the face of continued good news, Kerry clings to his message of gloom and doom, supporting it with twisted statistics. Kerry's complaints about a middle class squeeze are out of touch with the reality that home sales hit a record high last month, college tuition increases slowed and consumer confidence is rising.

  Steve Schmidt

  Home, Reality, Class

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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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• 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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• The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

  Martha Reeves

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Masters of Sex is the degree I got from Boston College.

  Amy Poehler

  Sex, Boston, Degrees

  "Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's Monologue: The Best Jokes" by Erik Hayden, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 12, 2014.

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• I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Respect, Games

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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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• 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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• 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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• And sex is definitely part of college life.

  Scott Speedman

  Sex, College Life

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