Money Quote by C.S. Lewis

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“College = A place where you spend a ton of money for a piece of paper that says you're qualified.”

— Korey Miracle

The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of…

— Henry David Thoreau

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."

— Anonymous

College players make money for the colleges. You think they spend all that recruiting money to get the best students? Come on.

— Stephon Marbury

“If it is about education, then all who are college graduates should be wealthy.”

— Stephen Richards

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“If it is about education, then all who are college graduates should be wealthy, but we know that there are many highly educated, highly…

— Stephen Richards

“Colleges are supposed to be the calm environment in which educated men and women determine what’s true and what’s false, and where they learn…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“What was it about scholarship and learning, he wondered, that seemed to wither the hearts of University men, leaving them incapable of loving anything…

— Ellen Kushner

“I try not to look like a university man here…My fellow-guests think of a university degree as a disgraceful preliminary to the blood-sucking life…

— Eilis Dillon

Colleges prefer to enroll wealthy students because they know it's more likely that they'll pay for full tuition without needing financial aid. They're also…

— Ana Kasparian