Academia Quote by Nora Ephron

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women…

— Madeleine Albright

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

— Joseph Stiglitz

“Colleges now view students as customers and market their degree programs as products.”

— Jeffrey J. Selingo

I never went near the Wellesley College chapel in my four years there, but I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity…

— Nora Ephron

What college boils down to is a brand name stamped on the graduate for the benefit of corporate consumers.

— Theodore Beale

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

— Joseph Stiglitz

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

“College is just a place where they let you pay them to tell you things you should be getting paid to learn on the…

— Chris Onstad

College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

— Jerry Kramer

The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

— Benjamin Disraeli