Friday, March 28, 2008

College - yes or no?

Samuel Beckett: Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
W. H. Auden: Definition of a College professor: someone who talks in other people's sleep.
Ruby Wax: College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.
Bill Vaughn: Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income-which he then spends sending his son to college.
G. K. Chesterson: Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Mike Barfield: An encyclopedia is a system for collecting dust in alphabetical order.
George Bernard Shaw: He who can does - he who cannot, teaches.
Mark Twain: I have never let schooling interfere with my education.
Albert Einstein: Education is what remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Robert Frost: College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
Robert Gohen: If you feel that you have both feet planted on solid ground, then the university has failed you.
Elbert Hubbard: You can lead a boy to college, but you can't make him think.
Anonymous: If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable.

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