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Quotes about colleges and univers
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I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them -- the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings. (Alazraqui Carlos)
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone. (Alazraqui Carlos)
Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top. (Alazraqui Carlos)
Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both. (Alazraqui Carlos)
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. (Alazraqui Carlos)
It is dangerous sending a young man who is beautiful to Oxford. (Alazraqui Carlos)
Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies. (Alazraqui Carlos)
Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge. (Alazraqui Carlos)
Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life. (Alazraqui Carlos)
The men -- the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country. (Alazraqui Carlos)
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. (Alazraqui Carlos)
In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one. (Alazraqui Carlos)
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach. (Alazraqui Carlos)
I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera. (Alazraqui Carlos)
I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that. (Alazraqui Carlos)
My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.' (Alazraqui Carlos)
I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting. (Alazraqui Carlos)
Basically your fish out of water story, a rock star goes to college in Middle America, in Lincoln Nebraska. We basically bum rushed the university, and people were like no way, that's Tommy Lee. (Alazraqui Carlos)
I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school. (Alazraqui Carlos)
No I graduated college and went to NYU for a graduate program and studied some sign language while I was there. (Alazraqui Carlos)
I went to college for four years and got my degree in drama. I had known I wanted to act, but my parents wanted me to go to college first. (Alazraqui Carlos)
“I didn't really party until college.” (Alazraqui Carlos)
“Even though college has been hard, I don't want to give up.” (Alazraqui Carlos)
“When I was in college, at Wheaton-I inadvertently got cast in a play, and I had a really great time doing it. I didn't know I had any knack for it, but I really enjoyed myself. It was a complete surprise.” (Alazraqui Carlos)
“I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.” (Alazraqui Carlos)
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