College Quote by Heather Mac Donald

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and…

— Derek Bok

The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most…

— Daniel H. Pink

“As knowledge is acquired it must be organized and put into use, for a definite purpose, through practical plans. Knowledge has no value except…

— Napoleon Hill

It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend…

— Daniel Coit Gilman

When the fields of human knowledge are so various and so vast as is the case in our day, the utmost that can be…

— Henry Parry Liddon

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

— Walter Scott

A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.

— John Wooden

The first aim of a good college is not to teach books, but the meaning and purpose of life. Hard study and the learning…

— John B. Watson

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

— Rabindranath Tagore

A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a…

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

“A university is a human invention for the transmission of knowledge and culture from generation to generation, through the training of quick minds and…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to…

— George Horace Lorimer