Ancient Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate…

— Terry Eagleton

I had a bike the first time I moved to L.A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I'd never…

— John Travolta

What abandoned course is that?

— Sam Snead

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

— John Dewey

Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

We want to build the most entrepreneurial postsecondary system in North America. That's why we're pleased that academic institutions, like Algonquin College, University of…

— Bob Chiarelli

The university has become a place that prepares you for the fights in the world.

— Henri Nouwen

College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“College = A place where you spend a ton of money for a piece of paper that says you're qualified.”

— Korey Miracle

...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows…

— Jack Kerouac

If ever there was a show that could be termed a mascot for people who ride Harleys, it's 'Renegade,' and I'm real proud of…

— Lorenzo Lamas

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

— Olive Schreiner