When it comes to reaping and optimizing benefits of efforts, especially for the youth of today, things can be made easy after staying close to inspiration.
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. - Bishop Mandell Creighton
Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. – Abbott Lawrence Lowell
If you have a college degree you can be absolutely sure of one thing… you have a college degree. – Author Unknown
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. – Theodore Roosevelt
College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night? – David Wood
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure. – Sydney J. Harris
A liberal education… frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. – Robert Maynard Hutchins
College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. – Elbert Hubbard
I learned three important things in college – to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. – Agnes DeMille, Dance to the Piper, 1952
A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job. – Caroline Bird