Academic Quote by Howard Zinn

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

— John Ciardi

The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.

— Arne Duncan

Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education.

— Robert Reich

College isn't necessary for everybody and it's only from what you put into it what you go there for.

— Tom Hanks

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

— Alex Tabarrok

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

For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

— William Styron

I hope college teaches you everything except how useless college is.

— Anonymous

Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it…

— Derek Bok

College is a life of its own.

— Anonymous

Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars.…

— Katherine Anne Porter

There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life. The only college where everyone is a…

— Anonymous