Book Quote by Stephen Leacock

The years I would have spent at University, I spent building Student Magazine and Virgin Records. For me that was far more fun and…

— Richard Branson

A university is a reading and discussion club. If students knew how to use the library, they wouldn't need the rest of the buildings.…

— John Ciardi

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their…

— Alain de Botton

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League…

— Sylvia Plath

I was always pretty organized in high school and my mother, she always pushed me to just overachieve, both my parents. (They) let me…

— Jeremih

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

— Syd Barrett

I grew up in a working-class community. I was the first in my family to attend college, thanks in large part to financial aid…

— Miguel Cardona

Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that…

— Anonymous

I was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but it's basically…

— Paul Lansky

We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have…

— Arthur Capper

“A university is a human invention for the transmission of knowledge and culture from generation to generation, through the training of quick minds and…

— W.E.B. Du Bois