“In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.”— Robert T. Kiyosaki, amazon.com
“Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to obey. They obsess over grades and seek to please…”— Chris Hedges, amazon.com
“I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialetics of intertextual modernity. Which makes no sense at all. Sometimes I feel that they live in a parallel u…”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“In my illustrious career as a university student, I turned in over 100 papers so that one day, in the end, I got 1 paper in return.”— J.R. Rim, goodreads.com
“I hate that phrase 'the real world.' Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it?”— Richard Hugo, amazon.com
“University, he said quietly. It sounded like a dream; it tasted like damnation.”— Nora Sakavic, amazon.com
“A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society…It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force i…”— John Henry Newman, amazon.com
“University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after.”— Mhairi McFarlane, amazon.com
“If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status”— Criss Jami, amazon.com
“Make sure if you're working hard at something it's in a subject you actually want to remember something about ten years later.”— Felicia Day, amazon.com
“If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading.”— Lailah Gifty Akita, amazon.com
“A university is a city of ideas, and we're grateful you became citizens of our city.”— Mary Karr, amazon.com
“Lisa thought bitterly of the ideas she had held on "college life" before coming to Denton, ideas and images culled from a hundred magazine stories and as many movies. Where were the convertibles, the secret bottles of liquor, the gay young men and their wild girl friends?”— Grace Metalious, amazon.com
“Lisa thought bitterly of the ideas she had held on "college life" before coming to Denton, ideas and images culled from a hundred magazine stories and as many movies. Where were the convertibles, the secret bottles of liquor, the gay young men and their wild girl friends?”— Grace Metalious, amazon.com
“I feel that the main thing to get out of college is a thirst for knowledge. College should teach you how to be curious. Most people think that college is the end of education, but it isn't. The ceremony of giving you the diploma is called commencement. And that means you are fit to commence learning…”— Vincent Price, amazon.com
“And there's this place called college! I mean, they want you to care, dig it, care about this education trip, and they don't care enough themselves to make it as attractive as the crap game across the street!”— Spider Robinson, amazon.com
“When trolls cut classes, you think they are losers. When the beautiful and/or reasonably erudite do the same thing to sit on the library steps and read poetry, you think they are on to something deep. You see only deep brown wavy hair and strong legs, well honed by years of Ultimate Frisbee. You see…”— Maureen Johnson, amazon.com
“I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.”— J.D. Salinger, amazon.com
“You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.”— L. Frank Baum, amazon.com