Best 32 quotes in «college education quotes» category

Academics and Alcohol was the balance for living life as a college student.

A book is a treasure of life.

A lot of people mistake having some degrees with being educated. Most degrees are nothing but certifications for higher paying jobs.

College is a different scene than it was ten years ago. It used to be all about sex and drugs. Now it’s all about texting and fast food.

Daily reading is a sacred knowledge.

When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

Education changes lives and scholarships make it affordable.

Education is the key to self-development and empowerment

Having a college degree does not make you educated. Always learning new things is what makes you educated.

Everybody must be given the opportunity for self liberation and development.

A university cannot make an imbecile less of a fool, neither can it make a warped mind straight; it is supposed to be a laboratory for the inquisitive mind so that he or she can take advantage of its academic resources. - On Academic Learning

How could we love books more than money? This is the state of book lovers.

I suppose I could have been nicer when I was at Columbia. I could have been polite, respectful, turned in my papers on time. Funny thing is, I knew a guy like that. English major. Loved to read. Never got in any trouble, just hung out in Butler Library reading poetry and English history. Ran into him the other day. Guy has three master's degrees, taught high school, even did a few years in the Marines. Know what he does today? He makes $9.75 an hour as a librarian. I was a jerk when I went to Columbia. But I was never a sucker.

It is easy to give up than to endure. Always choose the latter.

Life is learning process. We must keep learning.

Lover of books, lover of knowledge.

My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you’d probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science.

Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads.

School exams are memory tests, in real-world no one is going to stop you from referring a book to solve a problem.

The world of books is my fantasy.

Keep learning, keep learning!

Life gives us experiences for personal development. Appreciate the lessons and be a learner.

Read good books to improve yourself.

Self learner; reading.

So many books to read, will I ever finish reading?

The different shades of colours present cultural diversity.

The pursuit of our dreams is not without any difficulty. Those who triumph have learn’t to overcome the difficulty.

-Too often college Bible classes end up like this- With eager knife that oft has sliced At Gentile gloss, or Jewish fable, Before the crowd you lay the Christ Upon the lecture table. From bondage to the old beliefs You say our rescue must begin, But I want refuge from my griefs And saving from my sin. The strong, the easy and the glad Hang, blandly listening, on your word; But I am sick, and I am sad, And I want Thee, O Lord. (From Amy Carmichael's 1950 bio of Thomas Walker of Tinnevelly, India — poem written in about 1905 by Canon Ainger)

Universities are reluctant to update their syllabus as per industry requirement, not because their students will have to take the trouble to learn new things but because their professors will have to take the trouble to teach new things.

We are capable of learning.

Compassion is a college education. It's a doctorate.

What you read at Columbia is Plato's Republic and Homer's Iliad. What you learn at Columbia is that reading isn't education. Education is figuring out the hard way that at a school like Columbia, what you read isn't nearly as important as what you wear, how you look, and how much you know about sucking up to professors who really couldn't give a shit about whether some nameless, faceless kid in the 23rd row will work or starve after graduation.