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College

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

If you have a college degree you can be absolutely sure of one thing… you have a college degree. – Author Unknown

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. – Russell Green

A liberal education… frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. – Robert Maynard Hutchins

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. – J. Frank Dobie

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. – Elbert Hubbard

A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job. – Caroline Bird

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

I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that? – Author unknown, as seen on a T-shirt

Hitler destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. – J. Robert Oppenheimer

Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Even an ass can die with a degree. All it takes is four years and four thousand dollars. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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

A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. – Robert G. Ingersoll