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"One half who graduate from college never read another book."

"The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts."

"I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana."

"The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions."

"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."

"The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations."

"As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur."

"At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter."
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"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism."

"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."

"A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals."

"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible."

"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view."

"It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches."

"We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books."

"The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty."
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