College education Quotes

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Elbert Hubbard

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Elbert Hubbard

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Lillian Smith

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Elbert Hubbard

A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.

Thomas Ehrlich

I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges for a middle degree of instruction, calculated for the common purposes of life and such as should be desirable for all who were in easy circumstances. And 3d. an ultimate grade for teaching the sciences generally and in their highest degree... The expenses of [the elementary] schools should be borne by the inhabitants of the county, every one in proportion to his general tax-rate. This would throw on wealth the education of the poor

Thomas Jefferson

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

Dennis Prager

Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure.

Martin H. Fischer

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Lillian Smith

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Brooks Atkinson

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Theodore Roosevelt

Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure.

Martin H. Fischer

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.

A. Whitney Griswold
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