Aspect Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive…

— Anonymous

This is something that Donald Trump has been very effective at exploiting because throughout our history, one of the things that was important to…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.

— Vincent Massey

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of…

— Jonathan Swift

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and…

— George Santayana

“One of the ironies of college is that the impossibility of reading your way out of the modern predicament is something you learn about,…

— Joshua Rothman

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of…

— Jane Jacobs

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering…

— Saint Ignatius

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

— George Bernard Shaw

A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

— Russell Green