Quotes of: College-education Keyword

Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.

Timothy Thomas Fortune

Sarah Packard: I'm a college girl. Two days a week - Tuesdays and Thursdays - I go to college. Fast Eddie: You don't look like a college girl. Sarah Packard: I'm the emancipated type. Real emancipated. Fast Eddie: No, I didn't mean that... whatever t...

The Hustler

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

Joni Mitchell

I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.

Ken Jeong

The majority of the Big Ten towns are college towns. The colleges are kind of what run the towns.

Steve Alford

My wife was a licensed psychologist by profession and a college professor of psychology.

Marvin Sapp

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

Robin Thicke

More people are watching college football on Snapchat than they are on television.

Evan Spiegel

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.

Les Baxter

If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

Annie Baker

A good education is another name for happiness.

Ann Plato

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Lyndon B. Johnson

As you work to become a better student, remember that learning is far more important than the numbers on your transcript. I know it can be hard sometimes to remember what you're in school for. In some places, students go crazy over a tenth of a point...

The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College

I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybod...

Slaughterhouse-Five

As a child, I ate up the image Carl strived to portray: An inspirational rags-to-riches tale of a go-getter emerging the hell of his sulfur-scented, Podunk Texas upbringing. With a community college dropout education, Carl managed to reach six figure...

Magda Young

Educators are spiritual beings—we are on earth to make a difference.

The Comfort of Little Things: An Educator's Guide to Second Chances

[T]he great end of education . . . is to persuade and to inspire the sincere love of virtue.

Observations upon Liberal Education, in All Its Branches

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and no...

John W. Gardner

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which...

Richard Cobden

Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student.

Sebastian Thrun

I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.

Timothy Thomas Fortune