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

A college is a place where pebbles are polished and diamonds dimmed.
- Robert Ingersoll

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

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
- Robert Goheen

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

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

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas: learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.
- Gerald Ford

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

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.
- Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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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