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"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."
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"The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject."
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"I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942."
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"Seriousness is stupidity sent to college."
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"Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that."
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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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"It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan."
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"I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands."
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"The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway."
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"My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl."
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"I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals."
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"To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect."
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"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism."
Criticism
"The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness."
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"My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects."
Education
"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view."
Education
"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."
College
"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
"When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away."
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"The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty."
Sex
"A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation."
Family
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