Learning Quote by Ellen Kushner

“Yet, during these broken and irregular periods, he had developed one of the most valuable assets any man can have, even from a university…

— Dale Carnegie

“He studied diligently, unsparingly, and for that they respected him, but no one liked him”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“As he put in his studs he realized that he was enjoying life as he would probably never enjoy it again. Everything was hallowed…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong…

— William Zinsser

“He knew that the fuel his brain craved could only be found in a proper university.”

— Douglas Coupland

“I'd decided the campus was just a place to hide. There were some campus freaks who stayed on forever. The whole college scene was…

— Charles Bukowski

“College had once been my greatest aspiration; it stood for everything my mother did not—intellectualism, feminism, freedom. But being kidnapped had given me plenty…

— Nenia Campbell

“There was something alienating about being on scholarship, a tense mixture of gratefulness and otherness. You're talented, the money said, and we want you…

— Riley Redgate

“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

“Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his…

— Virginia Woolf

“He’d just been awarded his master’s degree, and he was more or less pure hearted and well intentioned; his actions and decisions were dictated…

— Grant Ginder

“And there was some point as a professor at Stanford and Harvard when I experienced being caught in some kind of a meaningless game…

— Ram Dass