College Quote by Henry Steele Commager Download Open image “What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness.” — Henry Steele Commager ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare College Greatness Young
“When Jim was growing up, good colleges were challenging to get into, but it wasn't like it is today, when being a solid, diligent… — Kate Fagan Copy Share Image
If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
When students get into a great university, it's a huge aspirational lift for their village. These students become beacons of hope. — Roshni Nadar Copy Share Image
“This describes Americans today. In middle school, we’re encouraged to start hoarding “extracurricular activities.” In high school, ambitious students compete even harder to appear… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
“The university is well structured, well tooled, to turn out people with all the sharp edges worn off, the well-rounded person. The university is… — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Taking full advantage of all that college offers can be tough for teens facing a major life transition under pressure to perform. Perhaps we… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
College will have such a different atmosphere. Can't wait to be around people like myself who are going somewhere in life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to everyone's level. — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn't foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
“A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. A… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
History is organized memory, and the organization is all important! — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices changed sharply,… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts that I… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
Some people, you know, should just go to college and do what they do and have a great job and not worry about trying… — John Legend Copy Share Image
I was totally sober in college and really, really focused. I just took the time when other people might be partying and just made… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
In college we didn't pass block the way they do in the pros - they played the I-formation at Wisconsin. — Mike Webster Copy Share Image
Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
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