The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a...
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Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
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Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap -- let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primers, spelling books, and in Almanacs; -- let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay, of all sexes and tongues, and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars.
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We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing
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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
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I've talked to students from Ivy League colleges who don't know their professors well enough to ask for a letter of recommendation. That doesn't happen at UMaine. Our faculty are genuine and sincere in their care for the students.
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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and our A...
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Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.
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But in a hundred high schools and colleges, this warfare against common-sense still goes on. Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is parsing ...
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Learning has been [a] great loser by being shut up in colleges and cells and secluded from the world and good company
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Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,—to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill,...
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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
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Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
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All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
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As with our colleges, so with a hundred 'modern improvements'; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The de...
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Colleges don't make fools. They only develop them.
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Indeed, there is hardly the professor in our colleges, who, if he has mastered the difficulties of the language, has proportionally mastered t...
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One of the benefits of a college education is, to show the boy its little avail.
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The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education
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As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The de...
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The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.
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