Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.
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I’d compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding.
Randy PauschThe way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.
John GreenTags: friendship college prom road-trip young-adults missing-person teen-novel
In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system!
Spider RobinsonAnd there's this place called college! I mean, they want you to care, dig it, care about this education trip, and they don't care enough themselves to make it as attractive as the crap game across the street!
Spider RobinsonIf you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.
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Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.
Chuck PalahniukChrist, seven years of college, down the drain.
John BelushiWhat else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?
Bret Easton EllisIt is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers in Union Army hospitals. I've spent thirty years teaching history at Columbia and I don't think I've spent more than fifteen minutes in the freshman dorm. Are we the ones keeping Lincoln's memory alive? Or are we burying it?
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