They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college. – Michael N. Castle
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity. – Bryant McGill
It cast a gloom over the boat, there being no mustard. We ate our beef in silence. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889
They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter. – Andrea Mitchell