Books Quote by Julie Lythcott-Haims

“Thousands of persons, many of whom never darkened the door of a college, have learned to read books that most of our college graduates…

— Stringfellow Barr

The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.

— Suzanne Fields

“It takes an enormous amount of work to complete a novel, and each of the students who completed the course has accomplished something many…

— Daniel Schwabauer

“how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They’re people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.”

— Daniel Keyes

“It takes knowledge and experience to say precisely and consisely what is true and what is needed. Scholarship often excels in lofty learning and…

— George Canty

“A good tutor can make one’s college experience a revolutionary passage, to life as well as to literature; a bad one can make it…

— Steven Pressfield

“And I had the high intention of reading many other books besides. I was rather literary in college — one year I wrote a…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“College was constantly creating these predicaments: in the morning, you’re an interested, earnest student trying to understand John Rawls’s veil of ignorance, in the…

— Jeffrey Gettleman

“Of the four fundamentals, discovering each writer’s identity is the one I hold most dear, and the one, as teachers, we need to shout…

— Patty McGee

“I read and talked into the microphone and was gracious to the local rich, the English faculty and the college president, and the students…

— Adam Begley

“After Princeton, the years seem like a blur, but the days seem more like rapid fire. - Donald Rumsfeld in Year of Magical Thinking”

— Joan Didion

“The whole college scene was soft. They never told you what to expect out there in the real world. They just crammed you with…

— Charles Bukowski