College Quote by Mark Twain

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be…

— Mark Twain

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 primary purpose of going to college isn't to get a great job. The primary purpose of college is to build a strong mind,…

— Sean Covey

The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students in their…

— Ernest L. Boyer

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

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

— Anonymous

My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that…

— Louis Menand

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

The chief value in going to college is that it's the only way to learn it really doesn't matter

— George Edwin Howes

The whole point of college is to find yourself, to figure out things before you go into the real world.

— Marcus Smart

I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

— Phil Mickelson

A great teacher is not simply one who imparts knowledge to his students, but one who awakens their interest in it and makes them…

— Edmund Ware Sinnott