Bills Quote by Melissa Harris-Perry

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular…

— Neil Simon

The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were…

— Camille Paglia

Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

— Dean Koontz

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

My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Donald Trump had a university. Well, the state attorney general decided that the Donald Trump University was an unlicensed sham. And I thought, you…

— David Letterman

Camille Hanks, whose upper-middle-class parents both had college degrees, was a student at the University of Maryland planning on a teaching career when she…

— Rebecca Traister

During my senior year, I dropped out of my Kappa Delta sorority chapter after they asked us to publicly condemn one of our alums,…

— Brett Cooper

I take absolutely no delight in the resignation of Sir Tim Hunt from his role as an honorary professor at the University College London.

— Cathy Newman

When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from…

— Andrew Young

Maybe he's not college-smart, but he's smart in a way they can't teach.

— Lisa Kleypas

I don't think Harvard was punished when Bill Gates left early. I don't think they were. I don't think he did too badly.

— Jim Boeheim