The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. ~Sydney J. Harris


Hitler destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without. ~Martin H. Fischer


A college education shows a man how little other people know. ~Thomas Chandler Haliburton


The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money. ~Author Unknown


I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best - it's all they'll take; leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money - provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it. ~Peter DeVries


A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class; race; time; place; background; family and even his nation. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins


The purpose of primary education is the development of your weak characteristics; the purpose of university education; the development of your strong. ~Nevin Fenneman


I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that?? ~Author unknown; as seen on a T-shirt


A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system; a standard; a set of ideas; not a job. ~Caroline Bird


The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in. ~Robert J. Kibbee


I learned three important things in college - to use a library; to memorize quickly and visually; to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. ~Agnes DeMille; Dance to the Piper; 1952


"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A.; M.D.; or Ph.D. Unfortunately; they don't have a J.O.B. ~""Fats"" Domino"


I never graduated from Iowa; but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's. ~Alex Karras


A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education; he may steal the whole railroad. ~Theodore Roosevelt


If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground; then the university has failed you. ~Robert Goheen; Time; 23 June 1961


A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. ~Robert G. Ingersoll


If you have a college degree you can be absolutely sure of one thing... you have a college degree. ~Author Unknown


A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. ~W.H. Auden


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; Once Around the Sun; 1951


A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40;000. ~Leonard L. Levinson


No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. ~J. Robert Oppenheimer


A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. ~John Ciardi


Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities:? the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away; so knowledge sort of accumulates. ~Abbott Lawrence Lowell


Academe; n.:? An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy; n.:? A modern school where football is taught. ~Ambrose Bierce; The Devil's Dictionary


Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful; but flowers do not grow in pure manure. ~Martin H. Fischer


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


The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. ~Russell Green


College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. ~George Gobel


The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. ~J. Frank Dobie


College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?? ~David Wood


The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice; leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canap?s of knowledge and never had their fill. ~Ted Morgan





Does college pay?? They do if you are a good open-field runner. ~Will Rogers


The new appears as a minority point of view; and hence is unpopular. The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary. ~Martin H. Fischer


Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't. ~L.L. Hendren