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"The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness."
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"Earnestness is stupidity sent to college."
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"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."
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"My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl."
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"My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman."
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"For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!"
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"On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?"
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"Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school."
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"I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers."
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"I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky."
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"While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor."
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"The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness."
College
"We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books."
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"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."
Education
"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
"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view."
Education
"To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect."
Fact
"A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation."
Family
"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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"My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects."
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"When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away."
Lie
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