“I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they’d be bored as hell by me. It’s a lonely way to go through life.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder an…”— Isaac Asimov, amazon.com
“Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“Just because you spent 4 years studying a subject doesn't mean you have to spend the rest 40 years suffering it.”— Dhaval Gajera, amazon.com
“Well, tests ain't fair. Those that study have an unfair advantage. It's always been that way.”— Allan Dare Pearce, amazon.com
“Just like a boxer can’t win without a few punches on his face, a student can’t be fully trained without ups and downs.”— Pawan Mishra, amazon.com
“When it's finals week and you've been studying for five hours straight, you need three things to get you through the night. The biggest Slurpee you can find, half cherry half Coke. Pajama pants, the kind that have been washed so many times they are tissue-paper thin. And finally, dace breaks. Lots o…”— Jenny Han, amazon.com
“I learned three important things in college - to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.”— Agnes DeMille, amazon.com
“College is a great experience and exposes you to a lot of things you might not otherwise learn or experience. You learn to evaluate things, think for yourself, and become a more independent person. Even if you decide not to use your specific degree, college can never be a waste of money if you get s…”— Steven D. Woodhull, quotegarden.com
“College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?”— David Wood, books.google.com
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”— Frank Zappa, books.google.com
“If you feel that you have both feet planted on solid ground, then the university has failed you.”— Robert Gohen, books.google.com
“I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that's one of the reasons for campus unrest.”— Kent McCord, books.google.com
“The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.”— Shia LaBeouf, amazon.com
“You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.”— Michael Dell, books.google.com
“In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available.”— Bill Bryson, amazon.com
“The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.”— Donalyn Miller, amazon.com