“Man, you've been holding out on me: this college thing is awesome!”— John Shiban, Dean Winchester, Jensen Ackles, imdb.com
“If schools aim to boost students’ future income by teaching job skills, why do they entrust students’ education to people so detached from the real world?”— Bryan Caplan, theatlantic.com
“I knew out of high school I didn’t want to go to college. I knew what whatever I did wouldn’t have anything to do with college.”— Tila Tequila, ign.com
“A college student asks what is the best drug to have sex on? (A pregnant women walks by) Birth control!”— ilovemydog7, reddit.com
“Now this isn't meant to make anyone feel like college is a waste of time, because for so many people it's not. But don't go because you feel like you have to. If your heart isn't in it, then why spend four years of your life stuck somewhere you don't want to be?”— Shane Dawson, amazon.com
“Me: I can’t believe it increased by 1500%. Professor: I’m sick of hearing about BITCOIN! Nothing can increase by that much and still be a good investment. Me: I was talking about the price of college tuition since 1980...”— BRENNEJM, reddit.com
“You can now major in Marijuana at some universities Guess grades are going to be a little higher this semester!”— cigar_dude, reddit.com
“I knew a girl in college who would sleep with guys for free Adderall. She was a real attention whore.”— GunnieGraves, reddit.com
“College is the best thing that can ever happen to you," my father used to say, and he was right, for it was there that I discovered drugs, drinking, and smoking..”— David Sedaris, amazon.com
“College calculus is like a drinking game against a super-heavyweight. Even if you know your limits, you're dead no matter what.”— GeorgeWashingTin, reddit.com
“So this guy at college keeps calling me a flamingo one of these days I'm going to put my foot down.”— okokokokokko, reddit.com
“The student is put outside of society, on a campus. Furthermore he is excluded while being transmitted a knowledge traditional in nature, obsolete, 'academic' and not directly tied to the needs and problems of today.”— Michel Foucault, learningspaces.org
“The university is no doubt little different from those systems in so-called primitive societies in which the young men are kept outside the village during their adolescence, undergoing rituals of initiation which separate them and sever all contact between then: and real, active society”— Michel Foucault, learningspaces.org
“You don’t have to change the world or find your one true purpose to lead a meaningful life. A good life is a life of goodness — and that’s something anyone can aspire to, no matter their dreams or circumstances.”— Emily Esfahani Smith, nytimes.com
“Most young adults won’t achieve the idealistic goals they’ve set for themselves. They won’t become the next Mark Zuckerberg. They won’t have obituaries that run in newspapers like this one. But that doesn’t mean their lives will lack significance and worth. We all have a circle of people whose lives…”— Emily Esfahani Smith, nytimes.com
“The first task of a competent teacher is to teach his students to acknowledge inconvenient facts. By these I mean facts that are inconvenient for their own personal political views. Such extremely inconvenient facts exist for every political position.”— Max Weber, amazon.com