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A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.
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Thomas Ehrlich
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
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John Ciardi
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College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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Helen Keller
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College-bred is a four-year loaf, using dad's dough, Coming out half-baked, with a lot of crust.
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Source Unknown
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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Matthew Arnold
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I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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Sir Max Beerbohm
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
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Doris Lessing
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It is dangerous sending a young man who is beautiful to Oxford.
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Dudley Ryder
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It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree.
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John F. Kennedy
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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
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H. L. Mencken
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One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
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George Santayana
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Remote and ineffectual don.
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Hilaire Belloc
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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Oscar Wilde
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The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
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Allan Bloom
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Orson Welles
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What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.
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Horatio Bottomley
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