At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything. Money and fame meant nothing to them. They were not worldly men.
College Quotes
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
College is like a fountain of knowledge – and the students are there to drink.
College ain’t so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
“D’ye think th’ colledges has much to do with th’ progress iv the wurruld?” asked Mr. Hennessy. “D’ye think,” said Mr. Dooley, “’tis th’ mill that makes th’ water run?”
Colleges… have their indispensible office – to teach elements. But they can highly serve us when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.
There is not the slightest probability that the college will foster an eminent talent in any youth. If he refuse prayers and recitations, they will torment and traduce and expel him, though he were Newton or Dante.
The chief value in going to college is that it’s the only way to learn it really doesn’t matter.
I learned a lot in college, the very least of it in the classrooms. I learned how to kiss a girl and put on a rubber at the same time (a necessary but often overlooked skill), how to chug a sixteen-ounce can of beer without throwing up, how to make extra cash in my spare […]
The old college is no doubt gone and we could not bring it back if we would. But it would perhaps be well for us if we could keep alive something of the intimate and friendly spirit that inspired it.
