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

—John Ciardi

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That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.

—Jeph Jacques

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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

—James A. Garfield

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

—Herbert Spencer

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

—Herbert Spencer

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

—H. G. Wells

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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

—G. M. Trevelyan

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Only the educated are free.

—Epictetus

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I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.

—Ellen DeGeneres

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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

—Diogenes Laertius

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The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

—Denis Diderot

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Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

—Clive James

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The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

—Claiborne Pell

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Education is the best provision for old age.

—Aristotle

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