Started College Quote by Parents' National Education Union

“Miss Mason’s life was one long struggle against mechanism. She distrusted organisation and standardisation. For this reason, she would have no truck with government…

— Parents' National Education Union

“She had never been to college, and I often wondered where her life would have led under different circumstances. She might have been a…

— T.J. Forrester

“Miss Mason had a genius for education. She had an inbred good sense and an unfatigued sensibility. Her mind was tempered by great literature.…

— Parents' National Education Union

“Somehow she’d clabbered together a series of student loans to get her undergraduate degree at Boston College. Her graduation gift to herself was a…

— Wendy Wax

“She has a fund of good sense and observation which, as a companion, makes her infinitely superior to thousands of those who having only…

— Jane Austen

“By the time the lecture ended and the audience awoke, she had built up a splendid fortune for herself (not the first founded on…

— Louisa May Alcott

“The Masons may not have taught me much about how to treat a guest, but they taught me not to shoot at them unless…

— Mira Grant

“Her eyes wandered back to the campus again, and she suddenly grew sober as the thought swept over her that in a few weeks…

— Jean Webster

“Sher Mason was being followed.  She felt the prickly hair on the back of her neck as it stood straight up. What she didn’t…

— Elizabeth Sherry

“As she closed the gate behind her she noticed her own name on one of the big envelopes. Turning it over, she saw written…

— Jostein Gaarder

“College had once been my greatest aspiration; it stood for everything my mother did not—intellectualism, feminism, freedom. But being kidnapped had given me plenty…

— Nenia Campbell

“in college there is no time to commune with one’s thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one…

— Helen Keller