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  • All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.

    Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
  • College education gives you the chance to earn money and live thereupon. But, umless it destroys certain illusions that are nourished by the common level of mankind, your lives will not be happy.

  • The purpose of a college education is to question your father's values.

  • Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock.

  • Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is . . . the inevitable.

  • Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

    Attributed; no source found
  • The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

    "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".
  • No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.

    William A. Henry, III (2015). “In Defense of Elitism”, p.169, Anchor
  • Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

    Wisdom   College   Men  
    Elbert Hubbard (1928). “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great ...”
  • When I finished my college education my agent said to me …'The key to beauty is to be always educating yourself, always learning something new, always doing something new and to have something to talk about.' And I never forgot that, and I think that's how one ages beautifully.

    "‘About Face’: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ Film Focuses On Aging Supermodels", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.
  • Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

    Proclamation 3422 at the American Education Week, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 25, 1961.
  • Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

    Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press
  • I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

  • And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of the working class. We listen to Steve Earle, Mary J. Blige, and k.d. lang. We devour paperback novels and tell evil mean stories, value stubbornness above patience and a sense of humor more than a college education. We claim our heritage with a full appreciation of how often it has been disdained. And let me promise you, you do not want to make us angry.

    Dorothy Allison (2002). “Trash”, p.14, Penguin
  • The price of a college education should never include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.

    College   Chance   Should  
    Source: www.elle.com
  • The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids through college.

  • I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it or not, it was the first time I'd ever heard the word. It goes to show you how a person can grow up in America and have a college education and still not know a goddamned thing.

  • College isn't the place to go for ideas.

    Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”
  • I just went along with political activists and interested in other intellectual interests which I pursued kind of at random. I never had a real college education. I got a degree, but it was just patching together courses here and there.

    Source: brightestyoungthings.com
  • I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

  • Most people, I suspect, still have in their minds an image of America as the great land of college education, unique in the extent to which higher learning is offered to the population at large. That image used to correspond to reality. But these days young Americans are considerably less likely than young people in many other countries to graduate from college. In fact, we have a college graduation rate that's slightly below the average across all advanced economies.

  • The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

  • 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.

  • If entrepreneurs were running schools, instead of bureaucrats, schools would be teaching a lot more of the skills and mindsets found in this book. Since they're not, this book is a necessary antidote to a traditional college education.

    Running   Teaching   Book  
  • Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

    College   Race   Two  
    Abbie Hoffman (1971). “The "steal Yourself Rich" Book”
  • People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries, of billionaires not paying any federal income taxes and of not being able to afford a college education for their kids - all while the very rich become much richer.

    Country   Jobs   Tired  
    Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
  • People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

    College   Class   People  
  • The Occupy Wall Street collective is confused about what it wants but it wants it now! Some of the loonier demands from its independent thinkers: Striking all existing public and private debt from the books across the "entire planet"; elimination of all international borders; free college education; a guaranteed "living wage" for all regardless of employment; an end to free trade; trillions in additional spending for infrastructure and ecological restoration; and ending the fossil fuel economy.

    Wall   Confused   Book  
  • In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

    Education   College   Doe  
  • Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there through struggle, such as socialized medicine, free college education, and paid family leave. But if you talk to working people in Sweden or Norway today, you will find out that many of those past gains have been eroded and some virtually eliminated, including massive under-funding of healthcare and other public services and a return to for-profit systems that are unaffordable to working class people.

    Struggle   Past   College  
    Source: www.socialistalternative.org
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