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It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

— Francois Rabelais

“Fellows of colleges do not always find money matters easy to understand: if they did, they would probably not have been the sort of…

— C.S. Lewis

You know I went to the Hunt Schools, a boarding school in Princeton, and I've heard so many Rhodes scholars have gone to the…

— Myron Rolle

Colleges seem to want candidates that are so well-rounded they'd have to be two different people use together with mutually exclusive characteristics! They have…

— Rebecca Goldstein

“Unlike at the Academy or the Lyceum, women, some of them concubines and mistresses, as well as a few slaves, joined the conversation; further,…

— Epicurus

Fraternities breed leaders. That, at least, is what most any chapter website will tell you, in not so many words - and the message…

— Maria Konnikova

“Strange as it may seem, not all of the great mathematicians have been professors in colleges or universities. Quite a few were soldiers by…

— Eric Temple Bell

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

— Duffy Daugherty

When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt.

— Umar

One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals. Education was…

— Pierre Hadot

These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where…

— Michael N. Castle

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

— Albert Einstein