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Quotations About College

Related: Education

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
Robert Goheen
Time, 23 June 1961


Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary


A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt


A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
W.H. Auden


Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L.L. Hendren


Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.
Will Rogers


College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?
David Wood


College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink.
Unknown


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


College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
Robert Frost


Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell