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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.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)
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“Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.”
Bob Dylan quotes (American folksinger, b.1941)
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“If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.”
William Allen White quotes (American Journalist known as the Sage of Emporia, whose mixture of tolerance, optimism, liberal Republicanism and provincialism made him the epitome of the thoughtful small-town American. 1868-1944)
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“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.”
Walt Whitman quotes ( Poet, 1819-1892)
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“If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.”
Marian Wright Edelman quotes
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“...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets is each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness...”
soulkerouac Jack Kerouac quotes (American Poet and Novelist. Leader and spokesman of the Beat movement. 1922-1969)
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“Harvard University, according to the directory of the American Society of Colleges and Universities, is a "type of weevil."”
Dave Barry quotes (American Writer and Humorist best known for his weekly newspaper column. b.1947)
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“Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.”
Samuel Butler quotes (English novelist, essayist and critic, 1835-1902)
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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.”
Abraham Lincoln quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)

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“Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them”
George Lorimer quotes (American editor and writer 1867-1937)

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